Hello Dinette,
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:49:55 +0200, Mamma Mia <dinnette(a)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