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Rowan Collins wrote:
On 21/10/05, Gerrit Holl <gerrit(a)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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