Gabriel Wicke wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:03:30 +0000, tarquin wrote:
How do the people on se: know to find my user page on en: ?
That's the same thing for other content really- if content exists in English but not in one of the more 'exotic' languages there should be a way to offer the existing languages for the article.
My proposal UI-wise is to display the full list of languages in a <select>, with the no-yet written one alphabetically below and propably greyed out. The existing ones should be alphabetically sorted above. Alternatively the existing ones could be sorted by article length, to give an idea about the comprehensiveness.
This way if you went to the not-yet written swedish version of your user page, you could see which languages exist in the dropdown.
I think it's a mistake the see langlinks as "translations" of each article -- rather, they are points of contact between the different versions of the encyclopedia. As has been pointed out many times, there are not always one-to-one correspondences between articles.