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Carl Beckhorn wrote:
For example, enwiki has a single article on [[eigenvector, eigenvalue, and eigenspace]]. If another wiki were to have three separate articles on these topics, and we wanted to keep the interlanguage links as an equivalence relation, then we cannot link those three to the main enwiki article.
That's true.
How would you propose handling a situation like that?
That's why I opt for more than one type of interlanguage links. Apart from "identical meaning" type, OmegaWiki also has "narrower term", "broader term", "related term" and "part of the theme".
I'm not sure if we need such fine-grained relations, in fact introducing more than one type could be quite confusing. Thus, I thought about "exact" and "approximate" only.
Your idea, if I understood correctly, is that interlanguage link + redirect should represent an "approximate" relation. It is quite tempting, esp. since it does not require any change in the engine. However, IMHO, it might still be confusing to a user, and it would be very difficult to convince all the 250+ language editions to accept this interpretation.
Regards, Lukasz