Duplicated Regionals

Is /Regional/South_America/Brazil/ is a hard link to /World/Portugu%eas/Regional/Brasil/?

I do not undestand why there are two categories. Isn't better make a soft link?

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking, but the two categories are for different sites. Regional/South_America/Brazil/ is for English language sites based in, and about Brazil, and World/Português/Regional/Brasil/ is for sites in Portuguese.

Ok. Now I undestand the diff

I was talking with an unix language

Soft link or Symbolic link is only a shortcut.

A hard link is a dump copy.

There are shortcuts:

In the English category Regional/South America/Brazil, there's a section called "This category in other languages", from where you can access categories about Brazil in a lot of other languages, among them Portuguese.

An in the Portuguese category World/Português/Regional/Brasil, there's a section "Esta categoria noutros idiomas" ...

Like all categories in the ODP, also the regional categories are sorted by language.

>> I was talking with an unix language <<

Ah! I see what you mean now. The link to World/Português/Regional/Brasil is in fact a symbolic link, it's just that it doesn't look like one.

We have three ways of making links. One is the "@link", which looks just like a sub-category, but with an '@' appended to it. Another is the "relcat" (related category) which goes below the sub-categories, in a "see also" section. The third is the "altlang" (alternate language) which works like a relcat, but goes in a section marked "this category in other languages". All of these are symbolic links, but only one of them looks like a link displayed by the 'ls' command.

Thank you all.