[Foundation-l] Re: Proposal for multilingual coordination on foundation website

[Nicolas Weeger]

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> *the title being in original language is problematic. If the original 
> language is in japanese, that means all I will see from this page title 
> is ?????/fr.
> I fear it is not very informative to me to help me guess what is on the 
> page.

Well, if you don't understand japanese, you'll need to wait for en: or 
fr: or <insert languages you speak here> translation anyway :) So not 
knowing what the title means isn't that harmful, is it?

And actually, we could also do something like: create [[My page/fr:]] 
as a redirect to [[Ma page]]. We'll then know that ''My page'' does 
exist in french, make it easy to find it through the redirect, but 
still have a meaningful title.
And/or, for ''static'' pages, once translated, we can move'em, and if 
required use bots to fix links (or fix manually)

> *at least on the wmf site, I can not really say which article is the 
> original one. Languages are alternatively worked on.
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But at some point you need to decide ONE version is the base one, imo. 
Else, when we'll have 25+ languages, it'll be a real ugly mess to 
follow changes. For instance en: makes a draft, translated in fr: ja: 
de:, then ja: gets an idea, changes something in ja:, other languages 
need to synch, then de: had another idea and changed something else 
and.... you get the point :)

Ryo