There may be some Latvians who understand Russian but
not English
That would be a pretty small group, and they'll definitely see one of the 2 links to
Russian on the :en main page
Cacahuate
On Jan 15, 2013, at 8:19 AM, carlb <carlb613(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
On 15/01/13 11:01, Cacahuate wrote:
I'd say it's pretty safe to assume that
anyone clicking from any English language project or any language that we don't have
yet will most definitely be looking for English. Our other languages are linked to twice
from the main page. The portal is unnecessary (and lame looking) and we should keep the
link as is
Cacahuate
I disagree. Anyone clicking from en: simple: meta: might be looking for
English, but the choice of second language for languages that we don't have is going
to vary.
No Haïtien Creole? Bon, on essaye en français. There may be some Latvians who understand
Russian but not English. Galego Wikipedia users might want español or português as obvious
alternates as gl: is linguistically and geographically wedged between the two (fala
Portuñol?) much like Basque is between fr: and es:
Admittedly, I'm at a disadvantage here, never having learned a foreign language. One
message that *should* be translated is a request that individual wikis replace their
{{wikitravel}} template and any wikitravel: interwikis with the Wikivoyage sibling link,
then delete the old template (en: and one or two others have already done this, but
we're still left with hundreds of links from a long list of languages like Indonesian
or Finnish which really need to be updated by someone who speaks these languages). I
can't easily raise an issue on the Indonesian village dump / village pump if I only
speak Canadian, for instance. There might be a page named "embassy" on the
individual projects which handles this sort of co-ordination across languages?
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