Let me clarify the above statement: by "a single project that has multiple translations" I don't mean "English + translations into other languages" I mean "a single language-neutral encyclopedia with entries in all different languages, with the goal that every entry exist in every language". That is, I think we should think of the entries in English as being translations of the French entries, and the Polish entries, and vice versa.
Ideally, if an entry exists in one language but not another, such as "racine Grecque" (http://fr.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Racine_Grecque) a link to the unwritten [[Greek root]] should pull up a result that indicates that there's a version of the entry in French.
ah, you ring a bell here. I several times felt the consuming desire just to create an empty page (or an *horrible* stub) in english, just to link a french page that existed.
Sorry for those who don't like stubs, but *this* issue is just a call for stubs. Or, we need to find another way to indicate links from a empty link.
Well, we have not used all the color of the rainbow yet. Say, when a page doesnot exist in english, but exist in polish, the link in the english page to the non existing page is purple instead of red, and when you click on it, you get an nearly empty page with "no article available yet" and "this page is available in [[polish]]" (in the page). + link to the polish page.
As long as only an "official" stub is available, this message could stay for any other langage available. Once the article is nice enough not to be a stub anymore, the automatic message is removed automatically, and the link is just available as a [[pl:]]
On the polish side, there could be an option somewhere allowing to propose the link to other wikis. Once the article is thought really good, polish people could propose it to intern linkage. If the page in french exist, the link is a [[pl:]] at the top, if the page in english doesnot exist, the link is in the page with the message.
Is this understandable ?
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