Editing Encyclopedia:Colloquium/archives/December 2006 (section)

===technical question: for discussion pages: linking to pages in other languages is not possible ?===
Hi, I would like to link the [[:de:Kurs_Diskussion:Software-Test/Einleitung|German discussion page]] with the [[Topic_talk:Software_testing/introduction|English discussion page]]. Reason: that both languages can be accessed easily and grow together - otherwise one language will dominate in the end. So, maintaining the discussion/pages would be easier. But: this seems not to work: I tried with: de:Kurs_Diskussion:Software-Test/Einleitung - but with the main pages, e.g. [[Topic:Software_testing/introduction|here]], it works. Can anybody help? --[[User:Erkan Yilmaz|Erkan Yilmaz]] 14:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
:I speak and write only English, but I have started a [[Topic:Multilingual Studies|Multilingual Studies]] division and a [[Topic:Translation|Translation]] department, hoping to get some better collaboration between the different language Wikiversities and Betas. [http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Babel This discussion] indicates that multilingual discussion and interwiki collaboration is going to be difficult, but i don't think it's impossible. Could sure use your help. [[User:CQ|CQ]] 16:39, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
::I think the inter-lingual is disabled in the ''talk:'' page, but one can do it by hand with [[:de:Kurs Diskussion:Software-Test/Einleitung]].--[[User:Hillgentleman|Hillgentleman]]|[[User talk:hillgentleman|User talk]] 21:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
:::I tried before, but it did not work. Either I am doing something wrong or perhaps you can show me on one discussion page, then I could continue. --[[User:Erkan Yilmaz|Erkan Yilmaz]] 21:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

:Hi CQ, the reason for my question was to combine both courses (German + English), so the participant numbers will increase. And so far I can say it helped already. I got some more ideas by other people and also while translating thought about other stuff - so definitely translation/cooperation over many languages should be done.
:I think that over time collaboration will be bad to handle, so everyone would focus again on their own languages. But right NOW, where there are so few participants, I think we need to unite more people from different languages, to get the courses going. Later we can see, how it develops. 
:So, this means some few people will do the lions work here :-) 
:For my next steps I would say this: Let me first translate the project into English, then you can count on me (at least some typos on the pages you mentioned I fixed :-) ). 
:What would also make the task easier here is following [[w:Talk:Watchlist#watchlist_over_several_wikis|feature]]: a site that has my complete watchlists, so I do only need to login there to see the changes. I do not know, if this exists yet? --[[User:Erkan Yilmaz|Erkan Yilmaz]] 21:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

::See [[Wiki Journal]] and [[Wikiversity:Publishing original research]]. --[[User:JWSchmidt|JWSchmidt]] 00:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
:::Hi JWSchmidt, thx - I have created a request and an article [http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Journal_of_Computer_Science_and_Software_Engineering#Wikiversity_course_software_testing here]. Who knows, perhaps we can gather some people there also. --[[User:Erkan Yilmaz|Erkan Yilmaz]] 22:03, 3 December 2006 (UTC)