MattisManzel: Voulez-vous renominer les RecentChanges a modifications?
Heck, it’s getting narrow in ther French GotoBar. Luigi and I “compressed” the entrances on oddwiki-centro: go-to-bar. “Compressing” = searching for the shortest terms. It turned a bit jargon but we finally made it to get all links in it without overlapping. I wonder if that could be done for the French oddwikis too.
We still have to fit wiki-net blogs (ou “blogs wiki-net” ?) in. It would be confusing if - just for space reasons - we’d have to move something from the go-to-bar to the side-bar on the French oddwikis.
is surely too long
On the German wiki-Zentrum I used “Neues” for recent changes - nouveau?
Talk instead of bavardage? Luigi finally agreed for Italian. It’s not beautiful but he said it works and it gave us the space to fit all in. In German “talk” is fine - everybody knows from TV what a talk-show is. It is even more precise than “Gespräch” or “Konversation” because it implies the “broadcasted” character of the conversation. Everybody can listen to it. Put a microphone on the table and a “Gespräch” turns into “talk”, kinda. On wiki we have microphones on all tables. Straightout: You get a case of beer from me if you fit all links in. 
I have been uncertain about what common wiki-pages should be nominaly “globalized”. I’ve been afraid that - what has the chance to become a global link language - gets ripped apart into shreds that can’t be ever fit together again and I have therefore been rather clinging on English terms. I’m about to lose that fear now. RecentChanges is used all over on wikis. That is no (in words: no) reason leave it unchanged instead of changing it into something nicely short in the language of the respective wiki. If a concierge from Paris wants to make a wiki for her poodle-club, she won’t do so if “nouveau” is called “recent changes”. But making “talk” a (or using “talk” as a) term for global link language - applying it as the central term for wiki and in a way the imparative to save this blueish planet from stupidity, greed and intolerance - that makes sense to me.
There is an important information to be transported it the translation for “talk-pages”. Talk-pages can not ever be pages for any parlot, ragot, gossip. When you gossip about someone in a TV talk-show the person might sue you for libel and might win the case as there is a recording of the show as a proof. Same applies to wiki. Gossip has no place on wiki. On wiki conversation is recorded and open to the public, always and persistently (maybe that’s the true “viral” quality of the GNU/GPL). Has bavardage a conotation of ragot, parlot? “Klatsch” in German like in Kaffeeklatsch = “bavardage a gou^ter” has and is no alternative for talk.
Sure, Laurent & Alex might hack oddwiki into using the full screen eliminating the grey columns left and right and there would be space enough, sure. I’d appreciate that, sure. But there is a special chance in the contemporary limitation we should try to take a benefit of. If we fit in the links now it will be even more beautiful and less overloaded with the full screen, a pleasure for the eye, and we have more of a global link language.
Sorry for the bavardage. I sometimes just have to write something instead of making links, pages and wikis. Thx.