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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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sekani nyangulu wrote:
please unsubscribe me> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008
15:21:13 +0200> From:
amir.aharoni(a)gmail.com> To:
wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject:
[Wikipedia-l] interwiki conflicts discussion> > Hello everyone,> > Interwiki
conflicts are a pain.> > Bot operators receive warnings about them, but
often do not fix them,> probably because they are reluctant to tamper
manually with projects> in languages that they don't know. The result is
that groups of> interwiki-linked articles remain unmaintained.> > One
technical solution that may ease this pain is Nikola Smolenski's>
"Interlanguage" extension. The central hub for its discussion is this> page
in meta:> *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link>
Being very eager about interlanguage linking, i
decided to Be Bold and>
opened a MediaZilla request to enable this extension in Wikimedia> projects.
It is supposed to be discussed on wikitech-l.> > However, this is only a
partial solution. Enabling this extensi
on will> make resolving conflicts technically easier, but it still must be
done> by a human editor. I am studying linguistics and i have a pretty good>
intuition for guessing the content of Wikipedia articles in languages> that
i don't know, so i often make thorough fixes in interwiki> conflicts across
different Wikipedias. Automatic translation sometimes> helps, too. However,
i cannot really know all languages and i cannot> be familiar with all the
different policies and cultures of different> projects. Finally, it's way
too much work for me to complete all by> myself.> > Therefor, a culture of
discussing this between Wikipedias needs to> develop somehow. (Other
Wikimedia projects can participate in this,> too; i am familiar mostly with
Wikipedia.)> > In another Being-Bold initiative, i started this page in
meta:> *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_synchronization> > It's
a very preliminary and experimental page. I have many more ideas> about it,
but it's a start.>
You are already
welcome to comment on the case that i opened there,>
"Black box"; comments from French speakers are particularly needed.> You
are
also welcome to add cases of your own. You are welcome to> write a bot that
will automate the implementation of the discussion> outcomes. Etc.> > I hope
that a new era of interwiki links is beginning.> > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni>
cat:
http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus:
http://amire80.livejournal.com>
"We're living in pieces,> I want to
live in peace." - T. Moore> >
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