On 6/7/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
They're not always 1:1. One topic might be given a whole article on one Wikipedia and only a paragraph on another. I'm not aware of any convention for handling that atm actually.
Looking a bit into this, I agree it'll be a hurdle. How big of a hurdle I still don't know.
Just fwiw, one simple basic example I have dealt with.
[[fr:Carnac]] discusses both the township of Carnac and the famous Carnac stones which are found within the town.
I split [[en:Carnac]] into that article which only discusses the town, and [[en:Carnac stones]] which discusses the megalithic site.
[[en:carnac]] and [[en:Carnac stones]] both interwikilink to [[fr:Carnac]]. However, nothing (anywhere) interwikilinks back to [[en:Carnac stones]]. There is no clean mechanism for doing so. The French article *could* link twice - once to each article - but then you'd just have two interwiki links labelled "English" and only the URL would tell you which was which.
In other words, many -> one correspondances are ok. One -> many are unhandled atm. Occasionally you'll see "French Wikipedia article" given as a "further reading" link but I don't think the MoS sanctions that.
Steve