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...
� Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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