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Andre Engels wrote:
2005/10/22, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com:
Here's my idea - it would require a bit of work though:
- If article exists on en:, auto-generate a multilingual disambiguation
page using the interwiki links in the article.
- If the article doesn't exist on en:,
2a) auto-generate a list of links to possible articles in Wikipedias with > x,000 articles (where x depends on how well the software works). Make no guarantee about the existance of the target article. 2b) scan the Wikipedias with > x,000 articles, pull out all interwiki links if one is found (stripping duplicates if it exists under the same name in multiple lanuages) and generate a disambiguation page.
This way, we both guarantee that all existing links work (to the same extent as when we move pages and create redirects, or turn things into disambiguation pages), while at the same time creating a multilingual portal.
Why use the Interwiki-links? Just check all languages for an article with that exact name. On http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun, I want a link to [[de:Sun Microsystems]] (which is the page [[de:Sun]] redirects to), and not one to [[de:Sonne]] (which is the page [[en:Sun]] has an interwiki to).
What about [[Taxi]] or any other words which have entered into English from another language?
You could even do interwiki links AND top Wikipedia checking. Or even any disambiguation pages linked off the interwikis.
Clearly, having "www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article" redirect exclusively to en: is a bad thing.
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