On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sort of tangentially, ... am I really the only one that frequently
uses the Wikipedia inter-language links as a big translating
dictionary? I've found it to be much more useful than automatic
translation engines for mathematical terms (both more comprehensive
but also in that it makes it easy to find the translations for many
related terms). The hiding doesn't make this any harder for me, but
it would make me a lot less likely to discover this useful feature.
Of course not, I do this all the time (I even wrote about it), but I
don't have any idea how many non-wikipedians use the interwiki links
in this manner. On the list of research projects I wish someone would
get around to: I would love to know more about unexpected/atypical
uses of the projects like this... I guess the reference desk is a
similar feature, an unexpected service cropping up in the middle of
the encyclopedia. I wonder what others there are.
-- phoebe