Hoi,
OmegaWiki is not a constructed language. Representing is as such
demonstrates clearly that you do not understand its concepts. What you
propose with tagging it with namespaces makes it even more clear that some
more understanding of the subject matter would be advisable. In the
ISO-639-3 there are only some 7000 languages, the ISO-639-6 will include
over 25.000 linguistic entities.
If worse is better, then your proposal is perfect because how much worse can
it get then proposing a solution that is open ended and has the potential of
over 25.000 new namespaces ? When you consider the problem with localising
MediaWiki; there are a limited amount of messages with a limited amount of
languages and already changes to the software have been made to allow for
the growing number of localisations.
Your later assumptions are based on the "best" solution you can come up
with. So please do some real thinking in stead of blowing
smoke<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blow_smoke>
.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Jan 23, 2008 3:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 23, 2008 7:46 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_OmegaWiki_for_Commons is the way in
which Commons can have tagging with multi lingual functionality. This is
what I think Commons needs. I think this is the time to start doing
this.
This requires accepting the whole OmegaWiki conlang (the associated
meanings stuff) and there actually being a fairly complete OmegaWiki
dictionary.
There is a much simpler "worse is better" solution which simply
involves having separate tag namespaces for different languages (and
possibly even different fields of interest) and then marking
category/tag pages with redirects and related tag links.
We've talked about it at commons before, but their remains a
resistance to tagging schemes and and allegiance to placing all images
in a hierarchy of categories.
I think the first step needed is simply accepting the use of "all that
applies" tagging, either as a replacement for or addition to the
current category system. Beyond that the details of how the tagging
works can be resolved over time. We should not fool ourselves into
thinking that we can possibly get it all right on the first try.
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