[Wikipedia-l] Interlanguage link stubs (was Re: Moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org)

[Brion VIBBER]

Anthere wrote:
 >The Cunctator wrote:
>>Ideally, if an entry exists in one language but not another, such as "racine
>>Grecque" (http://fr.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Racine_Grecque) a link to the
>>unwritten [[Greek root]] should pull up a result that indicates that there's
>>a version of the entry in French.
[..]
> Well, we have not used all the color of the rainbow
> yet. Say, when a page doesnot exist in english, but
> exist in polish, the link in the english page to the
> non existing page is purple instead of red, and when
> you click on it, you get an nearly empty page with "no
> article available yet" and "this page is available in
> [[polish]]" (in the page).
> + link to the polish page.

Something like that sounds doable (I don't know about the specific 
colors, but in general). This could perhaps be related to the proposed 
stub link indication -- see
http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-September/005510.html

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)