--- Brion VIBBER brion@pobox.com wrote:
Anthere wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Ideally, if an entry exists in one language but
not another, such as "racine
Grecque"
(http://fr.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Racine_Grecque) a link to the
unwritten [[Greek root]] should pull up a result
that indicates that there's
a version of the entry in French.
[..]
Well, we have not used all the color of the
rainbow
yet. Say, when a page doesnot exist in english,
but
exist in polish, the link in the english page to
the
non existing page is purple instead of red, and
when
you click on it, you get an nearly empty page with
"no
article available yet" and "this page is available
in
[[polish]]" (in the page).
- link to the polish page.
Something like that sounds doable (I don't know about the specific colors, but in general). This could perhaps be related to the proposed stub link indication -- see
http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-September/005510.html
Colors or just the way it is implemented, is still something minor I think. The point is if we see a non-balkanized wikipedia, it is logical that a subject covered in at least one langage, is not considered not covered at all in another. Let's think global.
(avoiding the stub issue) articles right now only have a dual definition : they exist or they do not. We should go forward a tri-definition, they exist in "this" langage (and maybe others), they exist not in "this" langage but in "others" they do, they do not exist at all. In short, it is thinking more of coverage of a subject than coverage in one langage.
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