On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Op 29 okt 2010, om 14:51 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: > >> Multilanguage tags, as well as synonyms, could simply be implemented >> as #REDIRECTs, maybe. [[Tag:Blume]] would redirect to [[Tag:Flower]], >> so a search for "Blume" would know about "Flower" easily. However, the >> system would then have to search for both Blume and Flower internally. >> Also, that could be a problem with "false friends" (en:Gift=present >> vs. de:Gift=poison). > > Though that's certainly not a bad option. I was thinking not to use > page-title search > when searching through tags. Instead the tag-table itself which > contains all the i18n > versions. An option on the tag-search page could specify whether the > search should > cover English( and/or user-language), or all languages. > > Reason being that using redirects would practically mean we are > supposed to keep > all redirects in-sync with the tag-translations, which seems double > work.
A separate database table derived from the wikitext on [[Tag:Flower]] would certainly work as well. Another idea: Instead of inventing new syntax or pseudo-HTML tags, why not use language links? On [[Tag:Flower]] [[en:Flower]] [[de:Blume]] That is well-known syntax, and could be nicely parsed for some other applications (On [[de:Blume]] "Search for images on commons relating to Blume" generated automatically, or something) However, it would preclude synonyms within the same language, as there is only one language:title pair stored AFAIK. Magnus _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
