Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Is any similar innovation going on in disambiguation pages and list articles?
For a few months now i have been thinking about writing an email with my thoughts about disambiguation, so i guess that now is the time.
I've been doing a lot of work improving interwiki links, mostly manually. There's a grave problem with adding interwiki links to disambig pages - very often a word that may be homonym in one language is not a homonym in another or has a completely different set of meanings. Examples of different kinds are abundant:
Simple cases would be:
- [[Grossmann]] vs. [[Grossman]] - In English these are separate
disambig pages, but in Hebrew they would be one.
- [[Kirov]] - In English this would be the Soviet politician and a
bunch of things names after him, but in Hebrew (קירוב) this would also be "approximation".
- Due to the peculiarities of Hebrew spelling, דאון (pron. "daon") can
be interwiki-linked to the various meanings of "down" and "daun" and also to [[Glider]] and [[Flying fish]].
Disambiguation pages are a harder case, but it think it could be applied to the whole interwiki linking.
- A link to a disambig page can be made in a different color, and thus
help the editors to fix it.
I think there's a bug for it, just waiting for a patch with no efficiency problems.
- It will clearly separate between purely technical and homonymic
disambiguations and those that have some encyclopedic meaning. The latter can go to the article space. ([[Cancer]] is a possible example.)
How do you differenciate between types of disambiguations? :S