New Wiki!

[Chris Messina]

Sounds like a plan.

Chris

On 10/27/06, Drummond Reed <drummond.reed at cordance.net> wrote:
> +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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