Yes, that sounds good to me. We'll see how it can work. I'll do the page on the fr.wiki tomorrow :-) How are the phase III switching going on ?
I have a question, hum, two very hypothetical questions maybe - is it possible that the software propose different special pages depending on the wiki? This being with the potential idea that this page on homewikis could be a special page, so helping access. If the page is burried ina 3 levels hierarchy, wikipedians wont check it. But though that page could interest us, it would not interest en.wiki. So, how much of this might be possible. I said might :-) - is it possible to watch several wikis from the same place ? I know there's the issue of confusion if it's a common list, or the issue of the multiplication of lists (could be solved by a drop-down (?) menu anyway. The core question is just, is it possible ?
--- Brion VIBBER brion@pobox.com wrote:
Pursuant to KQ's suggestions, I've started a page on the English wikipedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Embassy
This is indended to serve a few purposes:
- Summarize current cross-language issues (software
conversion, interface localization, interlanguage linking, ...?)
- Link to the equivalent embassy page on the other
language wikis (please make them!)
- Link to the Intlwiki-L list, reminding that it's
available
- List 'Wikipedia Ambassadors': polyglots who can
keep an eye on discussions across the various wikis and lists they frequent and act as go-betweens and representatives when big decisions are being made.
On this last, I'm assuming that in general there is at least one person on each language wiki who's already participating in at least one other-language wiki and can keep an eye on the local embassy without too much trouble. The embassy can thus serve as a communications post for people who need to deal with that specific wiki; drop a message there and somebody hopefully can decode and reply to it, or else find the specific ambassador you need and contact them directly.
I look forward to expanding this system, and hope it turns out useful!
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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