Extension:WiktionaryLang
 Release status: beta |
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| Implementation | Locale |
| Description | designed to add language awareness to the English Wiktionary. |
| Author(s) | Hippietrail |
| License | No license specified |
| Download | No link |
| Example | http://wiktionarydev.leuksman.com/ |
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| Attention: The source code for this extension is no longer available, and the example site is down. |
WiktionaryLang is an extension under development by Hippietrail designed to add language awareness to the English Wiktionary.
Background[edit | edit source]
Most Wiktionaries support multiple languages by allowing multiple articles per page when words in different languages share an identical spelling.
Automation[edit | edit source]
The extension provides extra database tables which associate language headings with page IDs.
Interface[edit | edit source]
- Special:Allpages has been hooked to allow listing articles by language as well as alphabetically.
- Due to the free-form nature of wikis and the fact that languages sometimes have more than one name or spelling, a special page is provided to merge the variant headings under a single language ID so articles with "Farsi" and "Persian" or "Ancient Greek" and "Greek (Ancient)" will share a language ID. Incorrect and ambiguous language headings can also be marked.
- A new magic word
{{NUMBEROFLANGUAGES}}has been provided.
Design issues[edit | edit source]
Special:Allpages can be very inefficient for large languages because of the ways SQL LIMITs and joins work. This could be improved by adding a crossindex to the database which records the article name and language ID in a single table.
Testing[edit | edit source]
WiktionaryLang is live at http://wiktionarydev.leuksman.com/ — please provide feedback there or on the talk page of this article.
Possible future features[edit | edit source]
- Random article by language
- Language index link at every language heading
- User preferences to allow the user to select which languages they are interested in and show only articles and translations in those languages
