https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4901
--- Comment #24 from Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> 2011-05-17 14:53:10 UTC --- @Derk-Jan The iPhone app may well work; the service to which I linked does, also. But it's necessary to write code which screen-scrapes, or understands how Wikipedia uses interwiki links and its URL structure (which fails where article titles are not equivalnet (Mona Lista vs La Giaconda, for example)), rather than simply being able to recognise links to alternate (which in British English would be "alternative"; "aleternate" meaning something else) versions of a page in other languages through the semantic metadata thoughtfully provided in HTML specifications. The HTML 4 spec defines "alternate" as "[Designating] substitute versions for the document in which the link occurs." While translation is mentioned as one example, there is no requirement that they be literal or word-for-word translations. @Aryeh. Reductio ad absurdum. Please don't. That's not to say we shouldn't use more rel-values (like "previous" & "next" in Wikipedia navboxes) and other metadata. A while ago, when I downloaded the en-Wiki article on Barak Obama it was 1814 KB; the microformat in it comprised just 110 characters of the emitted HTML code (~0.005% of the full download). That's not as many as in the preceding sentence. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
