Please unsubscribe me. -----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of sekani nyangulu Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 2:46 AM To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] interwiki conflicts discussion 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> > _______________________________________________> Wikipedia-l mailing list> Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.… mkt=en-us _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

It isn't like I have a choice in saving my inbox... On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: