edward molasses <molasses-one(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
On Friday 08 July 2005 2:46 pm, Muke Tever wrote:
The purpose of interlanguage links is to link to
an article on the *same*
topic in another language. For the purpose of a dictionary, this means
the same word. Thus an article that treats the English word 'house' must
use interwiki links for other languages with articles also treating the
English word 'house'.
Some wiktionaries have been using an inline link in the translation table
for the kind of link you appear to be looking for, i.e., a link from
en:house to it:casa... this generally appears next to the translation as
a small symbol such as ^, °, ☞, or ↺, depending on the wiktionary.
When the Wiktionaries are better written,
http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/house will have an actual definition of the
word as well.
Thank you for the help Muke! I'm not sure I understand completely, is it that
traditionally editors of wiktionary word pages will add the interwiki link
using the english translation of the word as the page name because they don't
know what the translated word would be, and the wiki of the other language's
site will have the intermediate page named with the english translation to
make it easier for the english wiki to link to it without knowing the
translation of the word?
No.
The purpose of the interlanguage links is to link to the *same topic* treated
in *another language*. For wikipedia, this means [[en:house]] would have a
link to [[it:casa]], because wikipedia writes articles about people, places,
things, and ideas, but for wiktionary this means [[en:house]] links to
[[it:house]] -- this is because the subject matter of wiktionary is *words*.
It may help if you consider the page title to be in full "the word
'house'".
The corresponding Italian page has to be "la parola 'house'", which is
why
[[en:house]] links to [[it:house]].
Remember, each wiktionary aims to cover all words in all languages. The
page that links to [[it:casa]] is <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/casa>.
*Muke!
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