[Search wiki] Non-english mini-articles

[Bani]

It still isn't perfectly clear to me how to handle this issue. I think
we have some different cases:

1) Article is already in English only
2) Article is using more than one language, split in sections
3) Article is about an "international" word but was written in a
language other than English
4) Article is about something regional / word not in English and
therefore is written in the local language

In cases 1 and 4, I think trying to move all articles manually could
not be worth the effort.
Cases 2 and 3 seem to deserve more attention, since we really will
probably split the article at some point, but we still have some
decisions to make, such as how to link the different versions. I've
just tried to search for a keyword that had both a regular version and
a /de version article and only the regular version was visible.
Probably if we start using /en for English now it won't even show up
(didn't test it though).

There are many pages being created in other languages at the moment so
I think this subject need some priority to make it easier in the
future. And maybe there should be some instructions on the edit page
telling the user that if they are writing the article on a language
other than English, then they should add it to the category of the
language (if we continue using that). That would also make it easier
for users to review the content.

Vanessa

On Jan 9, 2008 9:35 PM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought at first having different languages on one page would be
> best since I was assuming Mini articles would be very short
> definitions. However, I see now there's potential for them to be much
> more, so having proper interlanguage links to the other versions on
> their own pages is seeming better now. That also will make it easier
> when we later split some of these languages to their own wikis.
>
> Angela