On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
In the longer term, we need to redesign the interwiki links into a centralized system, that can be maintained. I think the way to do this is to use Wikimedia Commons. Instead of copying all the interwiki links to every language of Wikipedia, it should be enough to add {{commons|Category:Writers from Austria}}, and the rest should happen automatically.
Commons has enough to do with keeping metafiles up to date, they'd be crashed by also having to maintain IW links. I'd propose a new wiki, to which editors have to apply to get write access so that vandalism in this critical part is prevented. For the meanwhile, theoretically one could launch a huge query on toolserver which scans for conflicts. I'm not sure if this would be possible regarding performance, though.
Marco