On 15/01/13 11:01, Cacahuate wrote:
I'd say it's pretty safe to assume that anyone
clicking from any English language project or any language that we don't have yet will
most definitely be looking for English. Our other languages are linked to twice from the
main page. The portal is unnecessary (and lame looking) and we should keep the link as is
Cacahuate
I disagree. Anyone clicking from en: simple: meta: might be looking for
English, but the choice of second language for languages that we don't
have is going to vary.
No Haïtien Creole? Bon, on essaye en français. There may be some
Latvians who understand Russian but not English. Galego Wikipedia users
might want español or português as obvious alternates as gl: is
linguistically and geographically wedged between the two (fala
Portuñol?) much like Basque is between fr: and es:
Admittedly, I'm at a disadvantage here, never having learned a foreign
language. One message that *should* be translated is a request that
individual wikis replace their {{wikitravel}} template and any
wikitravel: interwikis with the Wikivoyage sibling link, then delete the
old template (en: and one or two others have already done this, but
we're still left with hundreds of links from a long list of languages
like Indonesian or Finnish which really need to be updated by someone
who speaks these languages). I can't easily raise an issue on the
Indonesian village dump / village pump if I only speak Canadian, for
instance. There might be a page named "embassy" on the individual
projects which handles this sort of co-ordination across languages?