I personally think the interwiki wiki is the best idea... it's been suggested before.
Mark
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2009/2/7 Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com:
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:24 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Or working WYSIWYG that hides the syntax escape from the casual editor.
AFAIKWYSIWYGINWAF. David do you think we can we get a WYSIWYG editor that doesn't leave a bunch of unduly bloated and redundant code for the next user who tries to edit manually?
Anyone who's ever tried to use Inkscape to fix a spelling error in an SVG map label or used PageMill for just about anything (then wondered where the hell "text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal;" came from or how the table attributes changed from "width:200px;" to "width:199.99729px;" when you know you didn't accidentally click the corner of it) will share my skepticism.
I think the best bet for these sites might be to require an explicit "interwiki:" prefix, that is to use (and train interwiki updater bots to use) [[interwiki:en:foo]] to link to [[foo]] on the english site, with the assumption that [[en:foo]] could potentially be the correct way to spell some word native to whichever language(s) Mark is talking about.
Obviously this would have to generalize so that the long-form syntax would be optional on other sites, but allow certain languages to opt out of the short form interwiki syntax (and thus opt out of automatic redirection or bad-title error or whatever would otherwise happen when you try to edit a local page with this title).
Or we could come up with something even more esoteric which requires all interwiki links to use a template.
Or create a completely new wiki (or possibly a sub-section of meta or commons) to track the equivalency relationships of articles on various sites, so that no human or bot needs to edit 125 different pages to ensure that every other project knows that the 126th translation of [[George W. Bush]] has been posted to the Old Church Slavonic "cu:" Wikipedia (which hasn't happened yet but they might as well be the next).
—C.W.
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