Universal references to language-related articles
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	Aug 24 2007, 4:09 PM

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Author: francisco.to

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I wish, when referencing a wikipedia article, to use a "universal" reference, that will link to a dummy page that will trigger a search for the correct version.

For instance,
http://uni.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications which would be linked to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications
...

In this way, if just a single page is associated to that universal referece, that would be the page to be displayed.

Otherwise a default language specific version to be displayed would be displayed, either based on IP range (countries) or user preferences (e.g. cookie).

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport created this task.Aug 24 2007, 4:09 PM

Since names are very often localized or transliterated, this would have limited utility.

I don't think we'd implement this this way, though cross-language searches of other types might have some usefulness. Going to go ahead and mark this as WONTFIX since this isn't the way we'd provide such an interface.

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