At Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:28:59 +0200 (CEST), Andre Engels (engels@uni-koblenz.de) wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Tim Starling wrote:
This is also on wikitech-l, forwarded on to wikipedia-l at
Cunctator's
request.
I've already briefly discussed this with Gary on his user talk
page. A few
observations:
In his proposal below, Gary does not explicitly deal with what
happens when
a previously unambiguous name is given a second meaning. Here's
what I
suggest:
- The original page is moved to a disambiguated name. This name
is selected
by the user who creates the second page.
- All existing links are updated via the pipe trick to point to
the
newly-disambiguated primary article.
Sounds like a bad idea - any pages that previously referred to the old page _wrongly_ would now be even more wrong. There will be rare cases where one disambiguation subject would be the only one that had links, but more commonly there are a few links that go to other disambiguation subjects. So I would very much prefer to have disambiguation done by hand, or at least under human control.
Andre Engels
My original idea is for the human to control the disambiguation process. The software just facilitates the process.
Gary Curtis
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