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#740 Allow web pages for language variant titles

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2014-11-18
2014-11-16
Darrah Chavey
No

Currently, Title Edit lets you enter Web pages for variant titles. In most cases, users should not be able to do this since Web pages should be associated with canonical titles instead. However, with language variants, a reader whose first language is the language of that variant might want to see an associated web page in that language. For example, Isaac Asimov's "Caves of Steel" was translated into Finnish as "Teräsluolat". The Finnish Wikipedia page, at http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teräsluolat, has information about the Finnish translation that does not appear on the English Wikipedia page. Thus both because of the reading ease and because of the additional information, a Finnish reader might want to see that link.

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  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2014-11-18

    Updated the description now that we have confirmed that Web pages can be entered for VTs.

     

  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2014-11-18
    • Description has changed:

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-If someone adds a web page for a variant of a title, the system appears to accept the edit, gives no warning, and then silently discards the web page. (Filed as a bug report.) In most cases, that makes sense -- the web page should go with the main title. But with language variants, a reader whose first language is the language of that variant might want to see an associated web page in that language. For example, Isaac Asimov's "Caves of Steel" was translated into Finnish as "Teräsluolat". The Finnish Wikipedia page, at http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teräsluolat, has information about the Finnish translation that does not appear on the English Wikipedia page. Thus both because of the reading ease and because of the additional information, a Finnish reader might want to see that link. But the system refuses to allow that page to be added as a web link.
+Currently, Title Edit lets you enter Web pages for variant titles. In most cases, users should not be able to do this since Web pages should be associated with canonical titles instead. However, with language variants, a reader whose first language is the language of that variant might want to see an associated web page in that language. For example, Isaac Asimov's "Caves of Steel" was translated into Finnish as "Teräsluolat". The Finnish Wikipedia page, at http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teräsluolat, has information about the Finnish translation that does not appear on the English Wikipedia page. Thus both because of the reading ease and because of the additional information, a Finnish reader might want to see that link.
     

  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2014-11-18

    Lowering the priority as per Darrah.

     

  • Ahasuerus

    Ahasuerus - 2014-11-18
    • Priority: 5 --> 3
     

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