please unsubscribe me> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:21:13 +0200> From:
amir.aharoni(a)gmail.com> To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikipedia-l]
interwiki conflicts discussion> > Hello everyone,> > Interwiki conflicts are a
pain.> > Bot operators receive warnings about them, but often do not fix them,>
probably because they are reluctant to tamper manually with projects> in languages that
they don't know. The result is that groups of> interwiki-linked articles remain
unmaintained.> > One technical solution that may ease this pain is Nikola
Smolenski's> "Interlanguage" extension. The central hub for its
discussion is this> page in meta:> *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link> > Being very
eager about interlanguage linking, i decided to Be Bold and> opened a MediaZilla
request to enable this extension in Wikimedia> projects. It is supposed to be discussed
on wikitech-l.> > However, this is only a partial solution. Enabling this extension
will> make resolving conflicts technically easier, but it still must be done> by a
human editor. I am studying linguistics and i have a pretty good> intuition for
guessing the content of Wikipedia articles in languages> that i don't know, so i
often make thorough fixes in interwiki> conflicts across different Wikipedias.
Automatic translation sometimes> helps, too. However, i cannot really know all
languages and i cannot> be familiar with all the different policies and cultures of
different> projects. Finally, it's way too much work for me to complete all by>
myself.> > Therefor, a culture of discussing this between Wikipedias needs to>
develop somehow. (Other Wikimedia projects can participate in this,> too; i am familiar
mostly with Wikipedia.)> > In another Being-Bold initiative, i started this page in
meta:> *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_synchronization> > It's a
very preliminary and experimental page. I have many more ideas> about it, but it's
a start.> > You are already welcome to comment on the case that i opened there,>
"Black box"; comments from French speakers are particularly needed.> You are
also welcome to add cases of your own. You are welcome to> write a bot that will
automate the implementation of the discussion> outcomes. Etc.> > I hope that a
new era of interwiki links is beginning.> > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni> >
heb:
http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng:
http://aharoni.wordpress.com> cat:
http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus:
http://amire80.livejournal.com> >
"We're living in pieces,> I want to live in peace." - T. Moore> >
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