Arwel Parry wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Arwel: It's a good idea. Do you already have it enabled in Welsh though (ie bilingual), or are they all in English currently?
It's been bilingual almost since we were converted to MediaWiki.
I think that would massively cut down on the amount of redirect vandalism.
I'm afraid I don't think it's such a good idea now - later last night the vandal returned (though he limited his vandalism to redirecting my talk page to "fr:en:Image:autofellatio_2.jpg") and he has already found out what the Welsh for "redirect" is! :(
Looking at the debate on [[en:WP:IFD]] on deleting that image, I'm rather discouraged that the majority seems to be adopting an ultraliberal permissive view of the desirability of this type of image, regardless of its' being a vandal magnet with deleterious effects on minor language wikipedias, and not being particularly necessary to illustrate an article.
Similarly, if the interface of aa.wikipedia were actually in Afar, people would stop using it for their stupid tests.
Speaking of which, a lot of people who make new pages on inactive Wikipedias seem to have typed the URL wrong. For example, if somebody meant to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa, they might accidentally go to http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa and then not realise they're actually at the Druk Yul (dragon language) Wikipedia.
Mark
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:03 +0100, Arwel Parry arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk wrote:
After spending five hours straightening out cy.wikipedia today, Deb and I were wondering if it would be worthwhile / possible to remove the #redirect command in English, so that potential non-Welsh-speaking vandals would at least have to learn what the Welsh for "redirect" actually is before they try to screw up the database.