2009/2/10 Vanessa Tejada Muñoz vatemu@gmail.com:
:S I don't want to disturb anyone. I'm preparing my master thesis and I had several ideas about MediaWiki and disambiguation pages. I was looking for information, no more.
Thanks for all.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@home.nl wrote:
Vanessa Tejada Muñoz schreef:
Goodbye.
Whoa, the goodbye part wasn't meant literally. "End of story, goodbye, the end" is just a quote from a movie.
My point was that you kept asking for something that isn't there, even though we said it wasn't there multiple times.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
Disambiguation is not currently a MediaWiki software concept, it is a Wikipedia content concept. That doesn't mean it's not a good candidate to become part of the MediaWiki software. It's such a firmly entrenched idea that it makes good sense to be able to query it and thus for it to become part of MediaWiki and the database structure.
Of course not all projects using MediaWiki have the disambiguation concept. Most Wiktionarys for instance do not use it. My conclusion is that a disambiguation extension would be useful.
The alternative is to use the API to access categories and do some parsing of the wikitext. This is plausible if you are interested in only a single project and a single language. If you wish to query many language Wikipedias your parser would need to be able to cope with many natural languages. If a disambiguation extension were to be developed there would be far less need to parse many languages.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)