[Wikipedia-l] International wikipedias and phase 3 software

[Lightning]

> I'll repeat what I said on the talk page:
>
>    Yes, but volunteer labor is scarce and setting up a few dozen wikis
>    that aren't being used and will have to be converted again the next
>    time we make a major software change* isn't my idea of fun at the
>    moment either. Any language that you want to use, mention it and I'll
>    move it over. Anything else will wait until it's gotten around to.
>
> For example, Xaos recently made noises about the unused -- and unusable
> -- Korean wiki, where the old software wasn't set up to handle an
> appropriate encoding. I set up a blank ko.wikipedia.org configured for
> Unicode support, and localization is ongoing.
>
> *What I refer to here is the oft-suggested ability to combine views of
> multiple languages (and the meta wiki) into one interface; for instance,
> 'Recentchanges' optionally showing changed articles in all the languages
> you work in plus the meta discussion; being able to select the interface
> language separately from the content language; having a single login
> work across all languages without having to separately set up accounts &
> log in all the time. This may require merging everything together into a
> single database, and the less databases to deal with at the time, the
> smoother it'll go.
>


ahh makes sense, thanx for clearing it up. The whole Idea of combining the
interface seems really cool.

Lightning