Anthere wrote:
I think using the word "international wikipedias" is not a good idea, because
- it stress out the "national" part of the wiki,
which is wrong since our wikis are defined by langage rather than by nationalities
Hence "*inter*national wikipedia", not "a collection of national wikipedias".
- it set up by default two groups, the international
one and the english one 3) as Mav said, it excludes Esperanto
Esperanto is "the international language"; it would seem perfectly ideal.
It seems that from the fr.wiki, I can link an english article with [[w:blabla]] or a meta article with [[m.blabla]]. Is there any way I can directly link a french article on the en.wiki ? I don't think so. Maybe I am wrong. If I am, please somebody explain to me how I do that. If I am not, why is it that a link can only go one way, and not the other?
[[w:title]] is a historical usage from meta to English wikipedia, and it's an accident that it works anywhere else. [[m:title]] is from any language wikipedia to meta. [[<language code>:title]] works from meta to any language. I would _like_ for [[<language code>:title]] to work from any language to any language, but since we already use that syntax for the magic language links instead of regular inline links, we may need some other syntax.
Ideas: 1) Like linking image description pages: "see [[:fr:Page français|some french page]]", "vois [[:en:English page|une page anglaise]]"
2) I notice that DeWikiPedia is available as an InterWiki suffix to the German wikipedia in the UseMod-style InterWiki InterMap. We could add the rest to this list, and start using it, and you could link eg [[FrWikiPedia:Page Français|a french page]]
3) The 'magic' links probably shouldn't be magic on talk pages, where you're more likely to be explicitly referencing a page under discussion.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)