Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
Timwi wrote:
- A global table for bidirectional inter-wiki links. People should not
have to add the same link to so many articles. In fact, taking this a step further, people should not even have to enter text like '[[fr:démocratie]]' into the article text when it's not part of the article text. There should be drop-downs underneath the big textbox listing languages, and little text boxes next to them for the target article name.
While it seems to be a very good thing, in fact it can't really work so because the relation between articles between the wikis is not a one-to-one relation For example on en:, the roman god and the greek ones share the same article but on fr: this is not the case, they have they own article. How a global table can resolve this sort of problems?
If the French Wikipedia has separate articles for them, it probably means several articles are warranted, in which case the English ones should be split to match. If not, the French ones should be combined. Or is there a good reason why French *needs* them separate when English doesn't?
If you have an answer to that, then use redirection pages. As I see it, French has two articles [[fr:Zeus]] and [[fr:Jupiter (mythologie)]], while English has [[en:Zeus]] and lets [[en:Jupiter (god)]] redirect to that. What's wrong with linking [[fr:Zeus]] <=> [[en:Zeus]] and [[fr:Jupiter (mythologie)]] <=> [[en:Jupiter (god)]]?
Timwi