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avidseeker

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Registered: 2022-09-06

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Standardize URL of localized Wiki pages

On Gentoo Wiki, localized wiki pages are subpages named by the language ISO639 code.

E.g: want the Spanish article of Systemd? It's as simple as appending 2 characters:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd/ --> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd/es

On Arch, links are ugly and long. Like this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd_(Espa%C3%B1ol)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications_(Espa%C3%B1ol)/Documents_(Espa%C3%B1ol)

Advantages:

• URLs are "clean". No percent-encoding needed.

• All languages are standardized according to ISO639

• Querying subpages is simpler with Wiki tools like "All pages with prefix": https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Special:PrefixIndex

lahwaacz

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2012-05-29

Posts: 762

Re: Standardize URL of localized Wiki pages

This is standardized on the Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Help:I18n

avidseeker

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Registered: 2022-09-06

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Re: Standardize URL of localized Wiki pages

Yes, and my suggestion is to use ISO639 codes instead of appending (LANGUAGE_NAME).

lahwaacz

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2012-05-29

Posts: 762

Re: Standardize URL of localized Wiki pages

Several alternatives were considered in the past and the discussion got nowhere, so we stick to the status quo.