Mamma Mia wrote:
....and Gerard, the links in the articles entered in the form: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITEM A B C etc] keep on disappearing. We can't have an articles to all the relevant links in Tumbuka (not within a short time, anyway) hence the references to the English relevant entries. What could be causing that, someone deliberately changing them or does the system change links automatically to the form [[ITEM A B C etc]]?
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Hoi, Indeed someone has changed all these references. I had changed just one (the first) to have it refer to the en:wikipedia using the standard syntax ([[:en:word|word]] where word is the name of the article). This syntax has a better performance than the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITEM A B C etc] syntax.
I do agree that you want to slowly change the articles to the chiTumbuka language. At this moment you have it the hardest, there are so few articles that it is hard to imagine how beautifull the tum:wikipedia will become :)
I will ask this person to not make any changes on the tum:wikipedia (I know the man).
Thanks, Gerard http://tum.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=ChiTumbuka&action=edit