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(a)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.
--
Arwel Parry
http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/