Op woensdag 14 oktober 2009 19:40:46 schreef Kenny Verstraete:
Hello
A little question about translating wiki pages and pointing to the same pages in another language.
I've always tried to keep pages, and definitely links to them, in english. So the page /Education/Application/Desktop would be a correct link, either in english, deutsch, dutch, etc...
In some way, it's recommended doing so if i can recall. But i've seen that this creates a bunch of pages that are actually doubles. They're just there to make sure the links work and redirect to the pages with language specific naming.
Not every language specific wiki follows this, so I'd like to ask... should I keep on following the naming so that it's always reachable with the english naming, or can I go freely with translated pagenames? (with of course the inconsistency issue in pointing to other languages with links)
In the Dutch wiki I always keep a page that is equivalent to the English page except en.opensuse.org is replaced by nl.opensuse.org. This page with the English title normally refers to the page with the Dutch title, so the page only contains the referral and the user only sees the Dutch title. A referral in the page using [[English title]] gets "translated" in the Dutch page to [[English title|Dutch title], so clicking on the Dutch title in a page brings you to the page with the English title in the Dutch wiki and the referral, or rather the redirect "#redirect [[Dutch title]]" in that page brings you to the page with the Dutch title, which can only be seen by a reader when he/she carefully looks at the page. The first advantage is that translating [[English title]] to the equivalent in the Dutch wiki is easy and straightforward, which let you make less mistakes. It is not even needed to exactly know what the Dutch title is. The second advantage of this is that you can mark all translated pages in the English wiki as to watch for changes. So when you bring up the watch list, you see the list of recent changes in the English wiki and, you immediately know the page in the Dutch wiki which needs to be changed as well. You just need to copy the English title and insert it after nl.opensuse.org/ and you end up on the Dutch page with the Dutch title which needs changing. After that you bring up the history of the English page and you can easily see what are the changes made and you make the same changes in you own language page. Obviously I don't care about double referrals if that is a consequence of the above. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org