[[Rotenburg]] on the English Wikipedia consists only of a link to the German. It is linked to from [[Rotenburg (district)]]. What should be done with such a page?
phma
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 13:42, Pierre Abbat wrote:
[[Rotenburg]] on the English Wikipedia consists only of a link to the German. It is linked to from [[Rotenburg (district)]]. What should be done with such a page?
To summarize: [[en:Rotenburg (district)]] modest article on the district -> links [[en:Rotenburg]] (a town in the district); page empty but... -> interlinks [[de:Rotenburg (Wümmer)]] page doesn't exist, but... <- linked by [[de:Rotenburg]] (disambiguation page)
I put a one-line stub into [[en:Rotenburg]], it could do with information from someone who's heard of it or knows where to find details.
I personally tend to frown on interlanguage links to pages that don't exist at present, since it's not very helpful -- there's no indication on the link that you're going to a nonexistent page, and you just get "there is no text in this page" instead of something helpful. But I wouldn't bother removing them; better for someone to write the linked articles and solve the problem. ;)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
--- Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 13:42, Pierre Abbat wrote:
[[Rotenburg]] on the English Wikipedia consists
only of a link to the German.
It is linked to from [[Rotenburg (district)]].
What should be done with such
a page?
To summarize: [[en:Rotenburg (district)]] modest article on the district -> links [[en:Rotenburg]] (a town in the district); page empty but... -> interlinks [[de:Rotenburg (W�1/4mmer)]] page doesn't exist, but... <- linked by [[de:Rotenburg]] (disambiguation page)
I put a one-line stub into [[en:Rotenburg]], it could do with information from someone who's heard of it or knows where to find details.
I personally tend to frown on interlanguage links to pages that don't exist at present, since it's not very helpful -- there's no indication on the link that you're going to a nonexistent page, and you just get "there is no text in this page" instead of something helpful. But I wouldn't bother removing them; better for someone to write the linked articles and solve the problem. ;)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Is it possible that the interlanguage links be of a different color when leading to a non-existant page (born in 1969 ;-)) ?
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On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 01:04, Anthere wrote:
Is it possible that the interlanguage links be of a different color when leading to a non-existant page (born in 1969 ;-)) ?
At the moment this would be tricky, since each language is in a separate database and they can't talk to each other easily to find out which pages exist.
It definitely will happen in the misty future phase iv all-in-one wiki, but we're not even going to seriously think about that until our present performance problems are thoroughly stamped out. We won't load all the eggs in one basket until the basket's quite thoroughly padded and insured. ;)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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