Brion VIBBER wrote:
I'm not "assuming" that; that's an
empirical observation of most (all?)
of the interlanguage links except for the ones you yourself have put in
without warning to nonexistent articles.
Whether they _ought_ to be that way is another matter. My contention, at
least as things stand now, is that the interlanguage links are more like
streamlined links to external websites than they are like internal wiki
links. You wouldn't link to an external web site that _might_ come into
being in the future but doesn't exist yet, especially without giving
warning. Would you?
The difference is that they *are* pointing to wiki pages that happen
to be blank, but where anybody can add contents at the click of a
link. I consider it a bug that the links are not displayed as
?-links. I guess this can be fixed in the PHP source code. Editing
an English page to add the correct translation of the title should be
considered a useful contribution.
Maybe they just don't draw as much activity when
there's already an
active encyclopedia-like Swedish wiki at susning.nu? You may have heard
of it. :)
I promised Larry Sanger not to use these lists to promote my own
website. If you dig through the archives, you should note that I have
been extremely careful to avoid that. However, I never promised not
to promote Enciclopedia Libre in Sevilla. Outside of these forums, I
do what I can to promote my site, and with good results. If anybody
wants the Swedish Wikipedia to attract contributions, I think they
should start to promote the website, and I wish them good luck. It
would help if it ran the new phase III software.
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