From: James HK <jam...@gm...> - 2015-01-25 01:17:46
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Hi, > Why should this approach (SIL) be used rather than working in the > framework supported by MW developers? @note, for those who wondering SIL has not yet been released. The aim of SIL is to bring the concept of multilingual SMW [0] a bit closer to reality by providing similar "interlangaue links" as Wikidata but through the means of annotating connected pages using a parser function. A short video [1] demonstrates how SIL can be used together with the intro that clearly identifies its main purpose "This extension creates interlanguage links and provides queryable annotations that can connect pages with similar content for different languages to be accessible via the sitelink navigation by using the INTERLANGUAGELINK parser function.". SIL does nothing different from MW, it is offering to use the same language navigational concepts as MW just with the support of SMW (I'm still unsure how "Special:MyLanguage" ties into this. If for some reason you want to create a language box, you just use INTERLANGUAGELIST and prefix your links with "Special:MyLanguage" in the template provided if necessary). SIL is about content pages and the content language of a page and there are technical reason why a parser function (similar as to DEFAULTSORT) is used as special annotation method (instead of just using [[Foo::Bar]] namely to allow for input verification, cache and cache invalidation to avoid any unnecessary query DB lookup's etc.) [0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/594 [1] https://vimeo.com/115871518 PS: I had wished that before you started this thread you would have either tested SIL or at least contacted users that are involved on the issue [2]. [2] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticInterlanguageLinks/issues Cheers On 1/25/15, John McClure <jmc...@hy...> wrote: > MW provides two important functions -- special:MyLanguage & > template:languages --to support multi-lingual wikis. > Am noting Semantic Interlanguage Links offers a rather different > approach for navigation between language variants of a page. > Why should this approach (SIL) be used rather than working in the > framework supported by MW developers? > thanks/john > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. > GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. > Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. > Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > Sem...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > |