Anthere wrote in part:
Toby Bartels wrote:
Anthere wrote in part:
ah, you ring a bell here. I several times felt the consuming desire just to create an empty page (or an *horrible* stub) in english, just to link a french page that existed.
My idea is that you should translate the first paragraph of the article. It's quite unreasonable that you should translate the whole thing, but translating the first paragraph will provide a good stub.
True. I can do that for sure. (I will :-)) But then, if I can do that in english, I certainly cannot do it decently in any other language (it would be mostly google translation, and these are often terrible, plus they do not deal with every language). So it would only be on the en.wiki.
But [[en:]] is the only wiki besides [[fr:]] that you use, right?
You would probably say that makes sense since it is the biggest; but it also make sense that some subjects will be over time better covered on the french/german wikis than on the english.
I certainly don't mean to suggest an idea that's special to [[en:]]. But if you can't write in, say, German, then why would you want to create a page on [[de:]] anyway? I'm not sure that I understand what you want to do.
True. Of course. These were just thoughts
I think that we're brainstorming here.
-- Toby