I'd like to propose a new Wikipedia: "the multilingual wikipedia"
Some ideas about how to do that are on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_communication
I would be very interested in getting the multilingual features of
oddmuse (the colored background, the language filters) ported to
Mediawiki and then start working on two things:
A) Elaborate the engine to make it work for multilingual pages: language
filters also in the edit mode, inclusion of automatic pretranslation in
a new translate-mode, etc.
B) Start making the "multilingual wikipedia". Kinda getting people into
the fun of translation.
Hopefully this wouldn't require a fork of Mediawiki. Unfortunately I
have a vage feeling that it does. In that case I propose as a name for
the multilingual Mediawiki engine: MMediawiki ;)
But who knows? Maybe things are easier than I think?
thank you
MattisManzel