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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures
From:       "Wildrick Steele" <wildrick.steele () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-06-18 15:34:14
Message-ID: 6eaa4d100606180834k26324931x55be25a4bfe3d68b () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 18/06/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam@vyznev.net> wrote:
>
> Wildrick Steele wrote:
> > On 15/06/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>Possible solution (if it's absolutely critical that color and colour
> >>both have top level non-redirected articles): Put all the content in
> >>{{colr}} and transclude it. If you include a heading near the top and
> >>people use section editing, they won't even know!
> >
> > Reasons include that [[color]] contains, or at least should contain,
> > different etymologies, pronunciations, derived terms, related terms,
> etc.
> > than [[colour]]. Another argument is that [[color]] also lists the
> Latin,
> > Spanish, etc. words, which [[colour]] doesn't of course.
>
> Hmm, that does rather ruin the redirect idea.  Silly of me not to figure
> that out myself.  (Of course, I don't really find the Wiktionary
> approach of putting homographs -- in different languages, even -- on the
> same page very useful, but I'm not going to try changing _that_.)
>
> The template approach proposed by Steve could still work, though.  One
> could have both [[color]] and [[colour]] transclude {{en-color-colour}}.
>
> --
> Ilmari Karonen
>

The only sections that are shared by both words are the translations,
though. Because of that, we're now experimenting with having a shared
translation section transcluded via template.

--
Cheers,
Wildrick
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Vildricianus
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