----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Is Giskart right? www.wikipedia.org
However, I *do* think it is a pretty minor issue, because RIGHT THERE AT THE TOP of www are the links to other languages. I have not seen any concrete proposals that are actually much improvement to that.
The "generic link" proposal could be.
You can include a link to a language. Imagine a link to "domobots" :D in Africaans doesn´t appears may, 2001. You can add a http://gen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domobot link in your page. If in June, 2001 there is not an article of domobots in your browser primary language, you will redirected to your second prefered language (i.e. english ) to see the article in english
If in July 2001, theres is an article, you will be redirected to the africaans article.
And all this without change the link. The user selects the options, not the page writer ( web-master).
This is specially interesting for multilanguage pages.
Regards.