--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
Anthere wrote in part:
ah, you ring a bell here. I several times felt the consuming desire just to create an empty page (or
an
*horrible* stub) in english, just to link a french page that existed.
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My idea is that you should translate the first paragraph of the article. It's quite unreasonable that you should translate the whole thing, but translating the first paragraph will provide a good stub.
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And you don't have to translate it *well*; use bad grammar and spelling, it'll get fixed.
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True. I can do that for sure. (I will :-)) But then, if I can do that in english, I certainly cannot do it decently in any other language (it would be mostly google translation, and these are often terrible, plus they do not deal with every language). So it would only be on the en.wiki.
You would probably say that makes sense since it is the biggest; but it also make sense that some subjects will be over time better covered on the french/german wikis than on the english.
The other point is that, if I can do that, I'm not sure every non-english speaking can do it. I doubt very much english would appreciate being flooded with google translation article introductions.
So it can only be a temporary solution (solving my problem, but not the overall problem)
Your proposal (snipped) is not a bad idea either, but it will take some programming work to happen. Translating the first paragraph can be done now.
True. Of course. These were just thoughts
anth�re
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