[Campaigns-l] Languages

[Jennifer M.]

I notice that the links don't actually go to "cn", "tw" etc... they go to
"zh-cn" and "tw-cn"...  So it appears to me that their infrastructure treats
the "zh" version as privileged while the others are supposed to merely
reflect the main version.  Presumably we don't want to privilege the English
site...

...

I just edited the English site's mission statement page.  Check out the
bottom.

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_Statement

(I made three links: to the Spanish babelfish version of the English, to the
equivalent page on the actual Spanish site, and to the English babelfish
translation back from the Spanish site.)  Perhaps we could template this
sort of thing for all pages, with a "known equivalent version" and a "no
known equivalent" version?

I imagine that there's all sorts of improvements on this (editing the
babelfished versions is bad bad bad), but is this useful as a quick hack
until something better evolves?

-Jennifer

On 8/2/06, Chad Lupkes <chadlupkes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been working on getting all the languages documented, as well as
> adding the new wikia on political subjects onto the main Portal:Politics
> page.  I found this site:
>
> http://leftbbs.wikia.com/
>
> It's a Chinese wikia for left wing information, but what caught my
> attention was the navigation links along the top.
>
> zh<http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh>
> cn<http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-cn>
> tw<http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-tw>
> sg<http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-sg>
> hk<http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-hk>
> I'm not sure what they are referring to, but being able to create things
> like this makes me wonder if we cuold do something similar with Campaigns,
> where each link would go to a different language version of the page being
> viewed.  There is of course the method used by Wikipedia, where the links
> show up under the nav bar to the left of the content.
>
> Opinions?  I know that the other language sites are just getting started,
> but as usual I'm trying to buid a foundation for future growth.
>
> Chad
>
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