On 7/3/06, Kent Sandvik <sandvik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I need a system for people reading wikimedia
marked up language
sentences so that the translated word or sentence in another wikimedia
page will show up in another frame or window. If possible this should
happen each time the mouse hovers over the link (like a popup), but
clicking on the link is also OK.
This does not need to be across all browsers, even if this is
supported by Firefox/Safari it would be good enough.
Here's a suggestion: broaden your scope slightly and make it so that
when you pass the mouse over any linked word, it retrieves the first
paragraph of that article and displays it somewhere. Then, the
question of where to find that paragraph is just an option. In other
words, imagine you're on the French wikipedia and you see the
unfamiliar word "château".
There are three useful things that could happen:
* The first paragraph (or sentence) from the French wikipedia article
[[Château]] is retrieved: Un château est à l'origine une construction
médiévale destinée à protéger le seigneur et à symboliser son autorité
au sein du fief.
* The English word interwiki linked from that article is retrieved: Castle
* The first paragraph from the English interwikied link is retrieved:
A castle (from the Latin castellum) is a structure that is fortified
for defence against an enemy and generally serves as a military
headquarters dominating the surrounding countryside[1].
Since interwiki links are always a little bit risky, I, as a user,
would prefer as much supporting text as possible to make sure that the
translated word really meant what I thought it meant...
Steve