On 10/24/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)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