On 10-10-2002, Anthere wrote thusly :
--- The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com wrote:
On 10/10/02 2:42 PM, "The Cunctator" cunctator@kband.com wrote:
A big question that we are in the process of
resolving now is whether we
want to think of Wikipedia as a single project
that has multiple
translations, or as a bunch of largely independent
projects specific to
particular nations and language sets. I think the
first conception is
healthier and more productive over the long term.
We really should think
about this issue before we take broad actions that
touch upon it.
It is true that from a strict efficiency point of view, the goal of a comprenhensive and neutral encyclopedia would benefit from dealing with issues in only one central article with as many actors as possible debating/working together rather than several different articles with only a couple of persons in each place, even though they are updating their own articles from the other wikis.
Like there was a page with search though several Wikipedias for a term there could be a gateway page to working on several (two, theree, four) versions of the same articles in different languages.
It would be a bit more convenient than opening several windows with different language versions of the article.
1. in a frame set that can be programmed (vertical horizontal sizes etc) 2. that can "guess" the name of the article in languages we've chosen to work on - Warszawa, Warsaw, Warschau, Varsovie you type only Warsaw and it opens respective articles in frames
Regards, Kpjas.