On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 11:40:13AM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Lukasz analysis depends on linking being
communicative, but this can
only be true when there is only one kind of link (x is the same
subject no more, no less as y). If we limited ourselves to that it
would preclude the "x is covered by broader article y" link which is
absolutely necessary if we want to produce useful interwiki links from
bigger projects to smaller ones.
I was saying in another message that this seems like a case where a
redirect would be desirable. Instead of linking from [[en:Specialized
topic]] to [[tlh:General topic]], we should created a redirect at
[[tlh:Specialized topic]] and point the interlanguage link at that. Then
human navigation will work smoothly, through the redirect. But automatic
analysis of the interlanguage link system will not follow the redirect
and will not think that [[en:Specialized topic]] is the same as
[[tlh:Generalized topic]]. Especially with the advent of unified login
there is little difficulty in creating redirects on other-language
wikis, if you know the other language.
- Carl