Anthere wrote:
I think using the word "international
wikipedias" is
not a good idea, because
1) 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".
2) 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)