[Wikipedia-l] Moving the English Wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org

[Stephen Gilbert]

--- The Cunctator <cunctator at kband.com> wrote:
> Let me clarify the above statement: by "a single
> project that has multiple
> translations" I don't mean "English + translations
> into other languages" I
> mean "a single language-neutral encyclopedia with
> entries in all different
> languages, with the goal that every entry exist in
> every language". That is,
> I think we should think of the entries in English as
> being translations of
> the French entries, and the Polish entries, and vice
> versa.

Why use the term "translation", then? The articles, in
most cases, are not translations of each other; they
have been composed in the given language. There is a
big difference between translation and composition.
 
> 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.

Yes, I'm all for that.

Stephen G.

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