Wiktionary:Votes/2007-01/Translations - wiki links (run off)

Translations - wiki links (run off)

 * Voting on: the format to be used for trans-wiki links in Translations sections. I think it important to have a standard, and I would rather use that standard as I enter translations - rather than later. This is a run-off after vote Votes/2006-12/"Translations - wiki links" which closed 2 days ago.


 * Vote ends: 15 February 2007
 * Vote started by: Saltmarsh 14:11, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Discussion: [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Beer_parlour_archive/December_06

Options
Please either abstain or choose one of the options (2 and 3) offered below:
 * 1) Abstain/Status quo
 * 2) Example: German: Wissenschaft (de)
 * 3) Example: German: Wissenschaft &#9658;

Note:
 * If we use the template, logged-in users will be able to set preferences (at least with (user):monobook.css) to none, superscript code, or any symbol they like. Just not done yet. The debate is the default presentation. Robert Ullmann 15:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Votes

 * 2
 * a straw pole of other languages (9) showed two with no links, one with a ° (degree sign), two with language code (eg de) and four with superscript lang code as example d in #1 above. &mdash;Saltmarsh 14:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2
 * With parentheses is good, superscript is good, triangle is bad. &mdash; V-ball 14:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2
 * The ISO code better identifies the link as external that the cryptic triangle. --EncycloPetey 23:45, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2
 * Exactly as it is there. Agree with both comments above. henne 09:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 - I guess. I don't like the thought of implementing a list of languages in MediaWiki:Monobook.js to convert the translation language name into a language code.  But with only a couple hundred wikis, I guess that isn't so bad.  But the time we have a thousand Wiktionaries, we'll probably have a much more efficient way of doing this, I assume.  --Connel MacKenzie 17:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * note that this vote is re: the format, not the implementation --Jeffqyzt 20:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Robert Ullmann 15:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 --Jeffqyzt 20:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC) (again, with the request that these should not be required to add a translation.)
 * 2 --Tohru 04:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Pschemp 16:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 --Cynewulf 16:39, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 —RuakhTALK 19:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Annabelleke 21:16, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Abstain. Aside from the absence of a link, which was recently turned down, no. 2 is practically already the status quo. If the best we can do is a two-letter code then I'd rather have no policy, to allow someone to come up with a better system. The triangle wouldn't be so cryptic if the first in a line were followed by the full language name. DAVilla 18:44, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment
Do we want the parens to be part of the link or not? has been like that for a short while, and I think it is better, since there is more room to hit the link. henne 14:18, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


 * At the risk of starting another vote and discussion and all that, I'm against having the parentheses be part of the link. &mdash; V-ball 17:11, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I tend to agree, but (anxious to avoid a vote!) in the original vote Votes/2006-12/"Translations - wiki links" parentheses were mentioned specifically more often than not. &mdash;Saltmarsh 04:57, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Decision
Well - Option 2
 * German: Wissenschaft (de)
 * seems the run away winner - although Option 3 almost came top of the previous poll. I understand DAVilla's reservations - (de) is only marginally more intuative than (el). &mdash;Saltmarsh 09:44, 15 February 2007 (UTC)