On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:50 AM, BinĂ¡ris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think this is a week point of our system. Work of
Wikipedia is based on
the approach that all the mistakes are easier to correct than to prevent. A
vandal may "work" on several pages to be vandalized, and I can revert them
in a few seconds. Or someone writes an article with a wrong title, I can
easily rename it. But here to commit the mistake is easy (one wrong iw into
one article), and, by means of bots, the correction gets difficult. This is
a system inversion.
We should invent a systematical solution to this problem. I thought on some
hidden comment next to a wrong iw that has a meaning for the bots to pick
that iw out of all articles, and never put back. Or just never into that
very article. (I just got Dr. Trigon's mail in the minute, that's another
approach for the same problem, also a good point to start thinking.)
A more far-reaching and better solution has already been discussed for
years, namely porting the interwikis to a separate (wiki) site, so
that such changes can be made at once for all languages rather than
having to be done separately at each. Maybe that will be worked on
with the data project the Germans are setting up.
--
André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com