On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru> wrote:
I just wanted
to say a word about that... We may make "fake
Wikipedias" or so. Let's say that
http://wikicompendium.org/wiki/encyclopedia:xyz:Main_Page is the main
page of Wikipedia in language with the code xyz. Then
http://xyz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page should be a virtual redirect
to
http://wikicompendium.org/wiki/encyclopedia:xyx:Main_Page (I think
that I would be able to make a couple of mod_rewrite commands to make
that). So, speakers of small languages would have their Wikipedia
(Wiktionary, Wikibooks), and we will have one project managed from one
place.
Looks like a very reasonable suggestion to me. As soon as we sort out the
interwiki issue (which I believe is not such a big problem).
There are two MediaWiki issues, but I don't think that they are too complex:
- Links inside of encyclopedia:xyz: name space should be like [[page
name]] not like [[encyclopedia:xyz:page name]].
- Page names inside of that name space should be like "Page Name", not
like "Encyclopedia:Xyz:Page Name".