On 10/24/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
No not interwiki links. Consider Commons galleries. I think so far you have considered it in relation to aliases within a single language only, right?
Oh, I see. Yes I had, but it should work equally across languages, particularly if nested patterns are supported. The same goes for names of foreign things on Wikipedia, like Turin/Torino, and even concepts like Mulled wine/Vin chaud/Glühwein. This latter one could be implemented either as:
#ALIASES [Mulled wine|Vin chaud|Glühwein|Glu[e]hwein]
or #ALIASES Mulled wine #ALIASES Vin chaud #ALIASES [Glühwein|Glu[e]hwein]
Convention will probably dictate which is preferable.
IMHO with the number of second-language speakers of English, it would make sense to have even more foreign language aliases to English words, but that's a separate issue.
Is there a benefit, perhaps, in explicitly marking which language the redirect applies to? Not sure. In an ideal world, you could have a situation where a Commons user with an English GUI would have "Worms" auto-disambiguated to the animal, whereas a German user would be taken to the town...but that's probably a bit further down the track.
Steve