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