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Rowan Collins wrote:
On 21/10/05, Gerrit Holl gerrit@nl.linux.org wrote:
Hi,
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl redirects to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl. It shouldn't. Should it provide a list off all Wikipedia's with an article [[Chernobyl]]?
One of the reasons for this is because historically it has always meant that - well, that's kind of obvious, but what I mean is that there are existing links on other websites (and who knows where else) of the form "http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/<article>", intending to reference the English Wikipedia specifically.
That said, I actually rather like the idea of auto-listing all languages whose Wikipedia has an article with that exact name - it doesn't exactly *break* those links, but it serves as an interesting introduction to/reminder of the multilingual nature of Wikipedia, and indeed of the Internet in general. It's all to easy for English-speakers such as myself to take for granted that all content will default to English, when, really, why should it?
Here's my idea - it would require a bit of work though:
1) If article exists on en:, auto-generate a multilingual disambiguation page using the interwiki links in the article.
2) 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.
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