On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:19:21 +0100, Peter Gervai grin@tolna.net wrote:
One question worths investigating is whether there is any case when links are not desired to be two-way: Article A1 links to B2 but B2 doesn't want to link back to A1 (or wants to link to A2 instead). I don't know whether there is such a case, maybe someone of you knows one.
I could see someone making a case for linking to 'near-equivalents'. Using my previous example, if I'm interested in reading about Germanic languages in Danish, but no such article exists, I might be willing to settle for reading an article about the German language.
I don't like this idea. I think when one adds an interwiki link one should be implicitly saying that the linked page covers exactly the same subject as the current page (not necessarily with the same content). To use mathematical terminology, the act of interwiki-linking should be an equivalence relation.
Steve