Le Friday 18 March 2005 19:21, Ray Saintonge a écrit :
Sabine Cretella wrote:
Hi Yann,
I added Sicilian for Wikipedia and Wiktionary - but I have a problem with Wikimedia ... shouldn't this remain the same for all languages since it is the name of the foundation?
This is a good point for legal reasons.
No, that's not the point. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_cola
Look for the titles of the article in Japanese, Chinese, Hindi and Russian. There ARE in the local script, even if Coca Cola is a trademark. This is the same for every article of every language which is not written with the Latin alphabet. BTW, there is also an article in Hebrew about Coca-Cola, but no link from en.wikipedia.org.
Ec
Regards, Yann
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:28:50 +0100, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
BTW, there is also an article in Hebrew about Coca-Cola, but no link from en.wikipedia.org.
So articles not wrtten with latin alphabet tend to isolate from interlingual link network. This tendency is strong on newly launched projects which need more help than larger ones.
I ask here such people, like Bg, Ru, Zh users to give a look to projects not only Wikipedia but also younger projects like Wikiquote and put interlingual link to English and link it back to their own language; it would be very helpful to make interlingual links dense much more and help the development of those projects.
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:21:32 +0900, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:28:50 +0100, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
BTW, there is also an article in Hebrew about Coca-Cola, but no link from en.wikipedia.org.
So articles not wrtten with latin alphabet tend to isolate from interlingual link network. This tendency is strong on newly launched projects which need more help than larger ones.
There will indeed be an effect in that direction. I myself do bot-assisted addition of interwiki-links, and to do that I have to 'guess' what the title of a subject in various languages is. Many subjects (names of people, cities etc.) will be the same among the various Latin alphabet wikipedias, but not in other languages. Thus, I will pick up the former much easier than the latter. On the other hand, if there is one link plus backlink somewhere, a bot can relatively easily add the rest.
Andre Engels
Andre Engels wrote:
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:21:32 +0900, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:28:50 +0100, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
BTW, there is also an article in Hebrew about Coca-Cola, but no link from en.wikipedia.org.
So articles not wrtten with latin alphabet tend to isolate from interlingual link network. This tendency is strong on newly launched projects which need more help than larger ones.
There will indeed be an effect in that direction. I myself do bot-assisted addition of interwiki-links, and to do that I have to 'guess' what the title of a subject in various languages is. Many subjects (names of people, cities etc.) will be the same among the various Latin alphabet wikipedias, but not in other languages. Thus, I will pick up the former much easier than the latter. On the other hand, if there is one link plus backlink somewhere, a bot can relatively easily add the rest.
I think that the members of minor Wikis will need to accept the major responsibility for this. The rest of us just don't have the required knowledge. For them to create at least one Latin alphabet link to any such language every time they start an article would give you a starting point. This can be started more easily on a very small wiki; after that it could perhaps become a habit for its members.
Ec
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