[Wikipedia-l] language interlinking

[Chuck Smith]

> > Also, is cross-language linking implemented yet or
> is
> > that still in the works?
> 
> I think it's actually still very much just in the
> idea stage.
> 
> As a typically pathetic monolingual American, I have
> a concern that
> cross-language linking should be done in a way
> that's non-obtrusive.
> It doesn't strike me that very many people will find
> it very useful to
> have 50 links on every page to every other language
> wiki for which the
> same article exists.
> 
> Even people who are multilingual typically speak
> only 2 or 3
> languages.  For example, many of our Polish
> wikipedians speak English,
> Polish, and probably in many cases 1 or possibly
> even 2 other European
> languages.  But they might find it useless to have
> links to Tagalog,
> Mandarin, Japanese, etc.

Well, I'm mostly thinking of the Esperanto wikipedians
which on average will probably know about four
languages...

Thanks,
Chuck


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