Hoi, Indicating what language a text is in using templates is utterly useless when other uses then reading with eye balls is concerned.
I do agree that small projects are a problem. However your perception of the problem is a bit narrower than how I see the problem. When you wear all my hats, you really would want to have one database with a potential to indicate per article what language the article is in. Thanks, GerardM
On 6/6/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Though the language for the Devanagari script article was not specified, the other example was marked [[Category:Armenian]]. Establishing the proper ISO code used to refer to a language is not the sort of thing that needs to be discussed by a committee. Standards already exist. Any single committee member should be able to provide that information on request, and probably within 24 hours.
In any case I think that the "technical disaster" of having wrongfully coded small corpus languages is less troubling than the real disaster of small databases that retain long term vandalism because nobody ever looks there.
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GerardM wrote:
Hoi, When you look at the details for the HTML it will tell you that the
language
is English. It is obviously not. Technically all content in Wikisource.orgthat is not English should be marked for the language that it is.
Having content marked English while it is in actual fact not English
means
that the meta-data of the page is wrong. Having multiple languages within the same MediaWiki database is technically a disaster. It is not marked
in
any way what language it is. This is in and of itself bad.
Thanks, GerardM
On 6/6/07, Yann Forget wrote:
Hello,
GerardM a écrit :
Hoi, It is exactly to find out if it is an "otherwise accepted language"
that the
language committee wants to make sure that the content is coded in this way.. I would not be surprised when all the content in
wikisource.orgthat
is NOT English is not coded correctly in the first place. Thanks, GerardM
I don't understand what you want to do here. Which code are you talking about?
What can you do about the coding of this?
http://wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%...
or this?
http://wikisource.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D4%BC%D4%BC%D4%B1%D5%80%D4%BB%D5%91_%D5%82...
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