Hello Dinette,
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:49:55 +0200, Mamma Mia dinnette@softhome.net 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]]?
I'm not sure I understand you. Are you saying that links entered in the chiTumbuka wikipedia, in the form [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITEM A B C etc], are being rewritten somehow as [[ITEM A B C etc]]?
If that's happening automatically, that's a problem. One possible solution is, instead of entering them as
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITEM A B C etc]
to enter them as
[[:en:ITEM A B C etc|ITEM A B C etc]]
For example, I believe [[:en:Canada|Canada]] will point at the English wikipedia version of the article on Canada from any wikipedia (French, German, chiTumbuka).
Hopefully using the wikipedia-style link above will prevent the automatic replacement from happening. Additionally, you might want to include some kind of notice to readers that the link they're about to follow contains English text (in case they don't read English).
Regards,
Steve