Jimmy wrote:
I don't think anyone is proposing that www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson would ever not work as it does now. It would be a pure alias for en.wikipedia.com.
Oh. Heh. Well, I think that's what I just proposed. Are you suggesting that links would still carry through to the en. site, but that www. would be reserved for the portal or official business too? That's an interesting idea.
kq
koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com wrote:
Oh. Heh. Well, I think that's what I just proposed. Are you suggesting that links would still carry through to the en. site, but that www. would be reserved for the portal or official business too? That's an interesting idea.
I propose that all the old links work just the same as they do now. But whenever we are internally constructing a link, we construct it to point to the newly preferred en.wikipedia.org.
--Jimbo
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:15:21AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com wrote:
Oh. Heh. Well, I think that's what I just proposed. Are you suggesting that links would still carry through to the en. site, but that www. would be reserved for the portal or official business too? That's an interesting idea.
I propose that all the old links work just the same as they do now. But whenever we are internally constructing a link, we construct it to point to the newly preferred en.wikipedia.org.
What was wrong with my proposal to have the links divert to the language specified by cookie and/or browser setting? That still seems the best approach to me, although it might be a little more work...
Khendon jason@jasonandali.org.uk writes:
What was wrong with my proposal to have the links divert to the language specified by cookie and/or browser setting? That still seems the best approach to me, although it might be a little more work...
That sounds like an excellent idea.
Khendon wrote:
What was wrong with my proposal to have the links divert to the language specified by cookie and/or browser setting? That still seems the best approach to me, although it might be a little more work...
If someone clicks on a link to
<a href=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Wikipedia: Thomas Jefferson</a>
then that's what we should give them: the English language wikipedia article on Jefferson. That's what they requested, that's what they should get.
We should not forward them to fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson, even if they have a cookie set to prefer French, nor even if they have a browser setting to prefer French.
One of the reasons is that for many articles, the French article will have a different spelling in the name of the article. Efforts to interlink the articles will be incomplete for a very long time, and in many cases, efforts to interlink may be impossible due to different choices of where to "split" certain topics.
We should follow the "Principle of Least Astonishment". Users should never be astonished, even if we think they'll be astonished in a good way.
--Jimbo
"Khendon" skribis:
What was wrong with my proposal to have the links divert to the language specified by cookie and/or browser setting? That still seems the best approach to me, although it might be a little more work...
(1) If I expect an english page about "Grilling" (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilling), should I get an german article about "Grillen" (that is not linked from or to the English one, by the way) or the non-existing Esperanto article about "rostado"?
(My language preferences are now eo, de, en, fr.)
I think, the existing links should stay directing to the same pages.
Maybe we can set up a clever auto-language-selection at www., but that should not have to use the namespace /wiki/, should it?
just my opinion, Paul
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