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From: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: w^3 <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: better handling of alternate languages in wiki
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:01:43 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Hi,

Alvaro Herrera a écrit :
> [...]
> So, with help from Stefan and the great guys at #wikimedia we now have
> the neat-looking links to FAQs in other languages, in the english FAQ
> and also in each translated FAQ.  And it's updated automatically
> whenever someone adds another translation as a subpage (so wiki/FAQ/fr
> for the french translation, for example).
> 

I find this really interesting.

> Therefore I propose we use the Mediawiki multilanguage stuff for
> handling content in languages other than english.  This is very easy --
> we just need to add {{Languages}} to the top of each translated page,
> and put them in a subpage.  So for example the spanish initial page
> should be wiki/Main_Page/es (in fact I already did that, and now
> wiki/Español is a redirect to that one).
> 
> So, for a start this means that the main page needs to have a
> {{Languages}} inserted at the top;

I would prefer to see a box on the left, as wikipedia does.

> and the "Alternate Languages"
> subsection should probably be removed.
> 

No. For example, in the french section, there are articles available
only in French. I don't want to lose them. Where will I put them if the
"alternate languages" subsection disappears?


-- 
Guillaume.
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