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...
<br><br>...<br><br>I just edited the English site's mission statement page. Check out the bottom. <br><br><a href="http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_Statement">http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_Statement</a>
<br><br>(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?<br><br>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?
<br><br>-Jennifer<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chad Lupkes</b> <<a href="mailto:chadlupkes@gmail.com">chadlupkes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div>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:</div>
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<div><a href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://leftbbs.wikia.com/</a></div>
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<div>It's a Chinese wikia for left wing information, but what caught my attention was the navigation links along the top.</div>
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<div><a href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">zh</a>
<li><a href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-cn" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cn</a>
</li><li><a href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-tw" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tw</a>
</li><li><a href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-sg" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sg</a>
</li><li><a href="http://leftbbs.wikia.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh-hk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hk</a> </li></div>
<div>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.
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<div>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.</div></div><div><span class="sg">
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<div>Chad</div>
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