Re: Translations

How about always having a /lang/ subdirectory between the main page and the translations?

So

css/properties/border-radius/lang/zh

?

Chris Mills
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On 5 Dec 2012, at 23:26, Alex Komoroske <komoroske@google.com> wrote:

> I'd think we should stay away from ?, #, and :, all of which mean something specific in URLs (or MediaWiki namespaces). Other than that, i don't have a strong opinion.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:04 AM, PhistucK <phistuck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding your last option, :zh can potentially clash with pseudo classes.
> 
> ☆PhistucK
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:52 PM, frozenice <frozenice@frozenice.de> wrote:
> Uhm, yeah:
> 
> css/properties/border-radius?zh is the same page as css/properties/border-radius, you just added a parameter.
> (I'm assuming we want translations on their own page)
> 
> css/properties/border-radius/lang:zh is still in the default namespace.
> Also there could be problems with wiki markup, don't know for sure, but wouldn't risk it.
> If we want people to be able to filter search results by language, that one does not help.
> 
> css/properties/border-radius/lang-zh seems ok from a technical standpoint, but doesn't look pretty. :(
> 
> css/properties/border-radius/$zh just looks wrong to me as a programmer :>
> 
> I don't know, maybe some other char?
> css/properties/border-radius/.zh
> css/properties/border-radius/~zh
> css/properties/border-radius/!zh
> css/properties/border-radius/-zh
> css/properties/border-radius/'zh
> css/properties/border-radius/_zh
> css/properties/border-radius/:zh (looks the best to me, also shouldn't clash with CSS stuff)
> 
> 
> 
> On 05.12.2012 17:25, Chris Mills wrote:
> 
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> On 5 Dec 2012, at 16:19, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Chris-
> 
> On 12/5/12 10:55 AM, Chris Mills wrote:
> 
> On 5 Dec 2012, at 15:50, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, folks-
> 
> Yes, good point, Phistuck.
> 
> The lang: namespace idea is interesting. Namespaces have
> implications for search, which may be a good thing... we want
> someone to be able to search within their own language (or rather,
> within any particular language). It is a bit long, though...
> 
> Chris, why did you dismiss the query-string delimiter? For
> technical MediaWiki reasons, or some other reason?
> 
> Oh, I'm sorry - I didn't mean to dismiss ? - that was supposed to be
> part of the previous sentence. I was only dismissing # and @
> 
> LOL... I misread your message. I agree about # and @.
> 
> Since we're on the topic... what about it?
> 
> Chinese: docs/webplatform.org/wiki/css/properties/border-radius?zh
> 
> 
> That would work pretty well, afaics. Anyone got any ideas on why this wouldn't work?
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Received on Thursday, 6 December 2012 09:46:59 UTC