New Wiki!

[Drummond Reed]

+1 to Martin's suggestions here. I'm a pretty intense Wikipedia user and
sometimes editor and their internationalization architecture is the best
I've ever seen for wikis.

Without going into the details, doing a parallel site by domain name prefix
(ja.openid.net, fr.openid.net, etc.) has a number of structural advantages
that will bide us very well as we add support for more languages (and we do
want openid.net to support as many languages as possible).

It may be a little bit more work at the beginning, but it will pay off in
the end.

=Drummond 

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Martin Atkins
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:42 PM
To: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: New Wiki!

Chris Messina wrote:
> Well, we should pick something and stick with it. Wikipedia markup
> seems overly academic to me (not a surprise mind you). The hyphenated
> solution seems practical and won't look that odd as part of a URL
> string. I'm not that worried about it, but I prefer the hyphen
> solution.
> 

My only concern was that the page titles and the "URL names" are (unless 
I'm mistaken) bound together inextricably in MediaWiki, so all of the 
Japanese pages are going to have titles like "Some English Thing-ja" 
rather than having a title in Japanese as you'd (presumably) expect.

The Mediawiki inter-wiki links allow the title to differ from language 
to language, and it seems that the system is then able to generate, from 
some little tags shoved in the pages, a "view this page in other 
languages" bar on the sidebar, which doesn't seem that useful when 
Japanese is the only language, but it'll scale much better if we end up 
having various language versions of the OpenID wiki.

My thoughts:
  * Make the OpenID wiki be the main page at OpenID.net. Right now it's 
just duplicating most of the content on the main site anyway.
  * Have jp.openid.net which then becomes a Japanese translation of the 
*entire* OpenID site, because the OpenID site is now a mediawiki site.
  * Use inter-wiki links to bind the various language versions together.

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