On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Andre Engels wrote:
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Magnus Manske wrote:
On the test wiki, I have created a special page to maintain interlanguage links. These are stored in a new database (wiki-intl). Please have a look at http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3AIntl and try the examples.
This is an early attempt at best. What will follow (if all of you approve the basic concept :-) is a link from each article to the "add" and "zoom" pages (see link above). For example, clicking on "Link another language" (or something) will bring up the "add a link" page, with source title and language filled in.
Then, there should be an option to automagically generate missing language backlinks (probably on the "zoom" page).
I called the page "international issues" because I hope that it will later hold the interface translation strings, as well as the user database.
Clicking on the links gives the following:
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://test.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?
The following error was encountered:
* Zero Sized Reply
Ah! I found what's going on. The link does not work for anonymous users, but it does for logged-in users.
Looks good, but there are some changes I would like to be made:
* Do something about the error above - preferably make it work for anonymous users; if that can't be done, remove the link. * Allow more than one link to be added to a single page * Show interlanguage links to existing and non-existing pages differently from those to existing pages (might be problematic because it needs information from several databases; perhaps it's better to check this once a day or so, accepting that it will sometimes be wrong) * After a link has been added, don't go to the International issues main menu, but to the 'edit interlanguage links' page of the original page. * Add a backlink to the page itself from its 'edit links' page.
Thank you for your work on this!
Andre Engels