User blog:Soulblydd/Interwikis - Thoughts

While creating the Supplybox template for Liveandie, I stumbled across the translinks, that are included in the original item template. The translation links redirect to the google translator preset on the respective language. The idea is okay, but the google translator does make quite hard mistakes from time to time, therefore I prefer articles written by hand over automatically translated texts.

As you may know, I am also working on a german Combat Arms Wiki and we also know the Brazilian page from ZombieW. So we would have at least two other pages who create articles by hand, reducing extremely horrible grammar and translation fails etc. to a minimum.

Furthermore, if there is a need for interwiki links, they should not be limited to items but rather for any relevant page (if there is an equivalent in another wiki), therefore the translation links should be removed from the item/supplybox template to be reinstated somewhere else.

How would I include interwiki links.

Wikipedia-approach
A similar approach to interwikis as it is provided in the mediawiki software is also available at wikia, but I do not know what preconditions have to be met and if this could work for external pages (as ZombieW's page) as well.

German CAWiki-approach
I've created a simple template that is included on top of the pages adding the respective link manually to the page. This could also be done for external pages as long as the articles can be called by name (or by ID if everything else fails).

Example:

Top Bar-approach
This approach is based on the translink-bar currently used in the item template. The Template would be included on top of an article (even above the Stub template) Offering translation links via the respective flags.

Example:

M4A1 SOPMOD


 