Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Lars Aronsson
<lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
Is any similar innovation going on in
disambiguation pages and
list articles?
For a few months now i have been thinking about writing an email with
my thoughts about disambiguation, so i guess that now is the time.
I've been doing a lot of work improving interwiki links, mostly
manually. There's a grave problem with adding interwiki links to
disambig pages - very often a word that may be homonym in one language
is not a homonym in another or has a completely different set of
meanings. Examples of different kinds are abundant:
Simple cases would be:
* [[Grossmann]] vs. [[Grossman]] - In English these are separate
disambig pages, but in Hebrew they would be one.
* [[Kirov]] - In English this would be the Soviet politician and a
bunch of things names after him, but in Hebrew (קירוב) this would also
be "approximation".
* Due to the peculiarities of Hebrew spelling, דאון (pron. "daon") can
be interwiki-linked to the various meanings of "down" and "daun" and
also to [[Glider]] and [[Flying fish]].
Disambiguation pages are a harder case, but it think it could be applied
to the whole interwiki linking.
* A link to a disambig page can be made in a different
color, and thus
help the editors to fix it.
I think there's a bug for it, just waiting for a
patch with no
efficiency problems.
* It will clearly separate between purely technical
and homonymic
disambiguations and those that have some encyclopedic meaning. The
latter can go to the article space. ([[Cancer]] is a possible
example.)
How do you differenciate between types of disambiguations? :S