I noticed that the roadmap has been updated that opensuse is about to release language wikis in french, german, spanish, and we were told earlier that this would be like the Wikipedia way of doing it. This implies that each language has its own Wiki database, and interwiki linking will be supported. I know that time will tell, but is the Image: and User: namespace shared across the different language wikis? Otherwise wiki users home pages will belong to one specific language, and all images will need to be uploaded for each langauage. Pflodo
On 2005-10-05 17:22:00 +1000, Peter Flodin wrote:
I noticed that the roadmap has been updated that opensuse is about to release language wikis in french, german, spanish, and we were told earlier that this would be like the Wikipedia way of doing it.
This implies that each language has its own Wiki database, and interwiki linking will be supported.
I know that time will tell, but is the Image: and User: namespace shared across the different language wikis? Otherwise wiki users home pages will belong to one specific language, and all images will need to be uploaded for each langauage.
do you know if it is possible at all? any pointers how it should be configured? Marcus
Marcus Rueckert wrote:
do you know if it is possible at all? any pointers how it should be configured?
it is possible, but I don't have a link right now. may be one of you should be subscribed to mediawiki mailing list (I can forward if necessary) jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr
do you know if it is possible at all? any pointers how it should be configured?
I hate when people answer with a question :-) The user issue might not be a big thing, as I assume that it will be integrated to the Novell login. Although you would still have a separate user space, but thinking about it logically this makes sense. If I say wanted to contribute to two different languages, it would make sense to have my user page in the two local languages, with an interwiki language link just like all other pages. Any language wikipedia can use images from the Wikimedia Commons by just using normal syntax, so it should be possible to have a similarly shared image space for images on openSUSE. A lot of images (screenshots etc) will be language specific of course. It would be enough if you could easily embed images from the other languages like thus [[en:Image:name.png]], but how you would achieve that I can not answer. What you want to avoid is the downloading and uploading of common images for every language, especially as I hope there will be more languages added. Regards, Pflodo.
Peter Flodin wrote:
Any language wikipedia can use images from the Wikimedia Commons by just using normal syntax, so it should be possible to have a similarly shared image space for images on openSUSE.
If I remember well wikipedia, there are two image repository, commons and a specific one. I don't remember how one can upload on one or another jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Peter Flodin wrote:
do you know if it is possible at all? any pointers how it should be configured?
I hate when people answer with a question :-)
The user issue might not be a big thing, as I assume that it will be integrated to the Novell login. Although you would still have a separate user space, but thinking about it logically this makes sense. If I say wanted to contribute to two different languages, it would make sense to have my user page in the two local languages, with an interwiki language link just like all other pages.
Correct, the user login will be integrated with the current login (using Novell iChain).
Any language wikipedia can use images from the Wikimedia Commons by just using normal syntax, so it should be possible to have a similarly shared image space for images on openSUSE.
A lot of images (screenshots etc) will be language specific of course. It would be enough if you could easily embed images from the other languages like thus [[en:Image:name.png]], but how you would achieve that I can not answer. What you want to avoid is the downloading and uploading of common images for every language, especially as I hope there will be more languages added.
Having a central "repository" (aka. commens) makes sense... Stay tuned on the language / localization topic - we'r looking forward to getting the wikis up and running. (I expect something within the a 2-3 week timeframe - if we all collaborate in a fruitful way ;)) Regards Christoph
Hi Peter, Peter Flodin <pflodin@gmail.com> wrote :
I noticed that the roadmap has been updated that opensuse is about to release language wikis in french, german, spanish, and we were told earlier that this would be like the Wikipedia way of doing it.
This implies that each language has its own Wiki database, and interwiki linking will be supported.
I know that time will tell, but is the Image: and User: namespace shared across the different language wikis? Otherwise wiki users home pages will belong to one specific language, and all images will need to be uploaded for each langauage.
I do think splitting up like wikipedia (i.e. de.opensuse.org, fr.opensuse.org ...) is a good idea and we should "wikipedianize" opensuse.org as close as it can be. I think this will drag some Wikipedia-Editors to us as well, because the working environment is nearly the same. I am an editor in de.wikipedia.org and sometimes I have a look into the english version of Wikipedia to see if there are any changes which should go into the german version of my pages as well and vice versa. I have created two User-Accounts (one for de.wp.org and one for wp.org) and that's fine for me. bis dahin/kind regards Martin Mewes -- Welche Mailingliste zu welchem Linux? suse-linux@suse.com -> SuSE Linux debian-user-german@lists.debian.org -> Debian GNU/Linux linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -> Linux Kernel
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