Peter Flodin wrote:
On 2/21/06, jdd
wrote: If you think a new local page deserves translating, add the {{IW}}, this will give links in the sidebar to nonexistent other langage pages and lead somebody to translate it :-)
I don't like this. I think that the interlink links should only exist for pages that are translated, and should never point to non-existent and if I had my way, not even to unfinished translations.
this an english point of view :-() We must make the localized wikis live. At present time there only _one_ address given anywhere, that is opensuse.org. so there are many ways to cope with this, the template is the only one I can manage myself. else could be _hudge_ langages links on the en front page or automatic routing by browser langage consideration. If incomplete translations should not be linked, not at all one could be, wiki moves all the time, translations are never finished.
I do understand that there is an issue keeping all the interwiki links up to date, but if the IW template was the answer, it should just be hardcoded into the left column for everypage, and I don't think that should happen.
not all the pages needs a translation link
Wikipedia solves this by using wikibots. This would be a much better solution. ie a script checks if there is a translated page for each english page, and updates the page with an interlink.
and how the script can know that? I know little about wikibots, but I beg they are server admin work??
I will not remove your edit of the Translation Guide, but I don't think it should work this way.
I proposed the IW here with little answer so go on, as usual. but this must be discussed (as we do now) and if possible by all the translators. I understand en wiki english speaking users have little use if this :-) - notice that this give them the category of the pages at least translated once Bear in mind that the en wiki will still be the "international" one and the other ones deserve some help, jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos