Erik wrote:
So it seems to me that for reasons of internationalization, the handbook should be written and maintained on the different language Wikipedias. That also makes it easier to use interlanguage links, and to move existing help page histories to the help namespace. The downside is that it is illogical - the handbook is not specifically related to Wikipedia.
What about the other Wikimedia projects (not to mention all the other non-Wikimedia projects that use MediaWiki)? That is why I started the handbook on Meta in the first place!
Would it be possible to have development on the handbook occur on Meta MediaWiki pages (at least for English) and have those versions exported (via an interwiki msg or something like it) to the various wikis' corresponding help:namespace pages? Otherwise each project (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, ...) will have a fork in the same language of the handbook - not good. However, until Meta's interface gets internationalized, non-English handbook development should happen on the non-English wikis, IMO.
That would mean that the English help:namespace pages would be protected with an interwiki msg (or something similiar) on them pointing to the Meta versions of those pages. The help namespace on the non-English wikis, however, would not be protected and would have their content on those wikis' actual help:namespace pages (and when Meta's interface gets internationalized, that content could be moved to Meta).
We already export some Meta pages to the foundation's website and already have the MediaWiki->{{msg}} export utility. So...
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