User talk:Craig Baker

I saw your edit for Departing from Baidi in the Morning. I think linking it to Translingual would probably work in most cases. However, I created Mandarin sections on for 朝, 辭 and 還 and linked the wikisource text to the section in Mandarin, rather than Translingual, for your reference. The advantage is that you get the part of speech, pronunciation etc. The disadvantage is that most single character entries on Wiktionary lack an adequate Mandarin section. I think the ideal would be to link the entries to the Mandarin section. However, this may not be practical. I'll leave it up to you. I'll be curious to find out how your work evolves. -- A-cai (talk) 00:54, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. I agree that Mandarin would be better, I wasn't sure before whether that was normally accepted on single-character pages. Is Translingual supposed to remain a general collection of definitions from different languages/dialects, or is the plan for some or all definitions to eventually move to particular language sections?

I also wonder about the different simplified and traditional wikt. pages. Should I manually update both versions to keep them in sync, or is there some existing or planned functionality for this to be done semi-automatically? Craig Baker (talk) 02:46, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

It's no problem for single-character entries. It's just that, historically, we haven't had many Mandarin contributors, so I've focused more of my time on compound entries (since we already at least have a translingual section for single-character entries, as inadequate as they are) Right now, we have to manually update both the simplified and traditional pages separately in order to keep them in sync. I know it's a pain, but it's currently the only way to ensure that both are covered. My hope is that the techies will figure out a solution for this at some point in the future. -- A-cai (talk) 23:08, 20 October 2011 (UTC)