Hi,
From my perspective, Brynet-Inc is right (people who don't know English are doomed in the long run), and XanClic is right too (it'd be for people who are bilingual who may be more comfortable with a different language, not people who don't know English).
I can't see what harm it'd do (as people who don't know English will be doomed, regardless of whether there's inter-lingual links or not). Therefore, at least on the surface, I'm in favour of it.
However...
Why stop there? Why not have an "alternative sources" section that gives links to similar articles in other languages
and similar articles in English (e.g. on Wikipedia, etc)? That way people could use the OSdev wiki as a way of finding sites they're most comfortable with, regardless of their preferred language.
However....
Why stop there? With lots of links, it'd become confusing for the reader, who won't know which links are "best" for them. To fix this, you could have some type of rating system that gives the readers a list of links that are sorted in order of "likely preference". This could maybe use information like the country the reader is in (based on their IP address), their browsing history, etc.
However...
While this sounds great, it'd be a major challenge to maintain, especially as the web is fairly dynamic. To avoid major hassles, we'd need to find some way of automatically finding web pages with similar content, removing dead links, collecting user information, etc. It'd work out to a lot of complex code and significant changes to the wiki software, but it'd be easier in the long run.
However, we could just have one link to Google's web site on each page instead. That way people would get all of these features and we wouldn't need to do any extra work.
Cheers,
Brendan