On 10/8/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that it would be nice if this exact same list existed in some "language neutral" location and you could just add [[en:Henri Oreiller]] to the bottom of it, which would, in theory, trigger some sort of internal process to purge the cache of all seven articles so that they infallibly show six interwiki links apiece after a moment's time. This would be even more helpful for topics where the number of languages has just increased from say, 59 to 60.
Yep.
2. Semantics: speakers of language A may draw a clear distinction
between the concepts denoted by terms AX and AY, which may translate to language B as BX and BY, but be used interchangeably in the latter language.
Yes, I alluded to that possibility. But towns and people, in particular, strike me as pretty clear cut. It's unusual to see a person only form part of an article rather than the whole thing. Though it does happen, such as with minor candidates for minor elections.
3. For some topics, the English Wikipedia has a "salted" page or a
protected redirect while other languages have a proper article.
Yes, and our hypothetical semantic linking system could handled that, I would think.
If placeholder images were more widely used and/or if infobox syntax was more standardized, this would be easy to do. Failing that there's always [[Image:$1|thumb|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]], which I put somewhere in
Hmm, I don't even bother with a caption. But each to his own.
Of course if there was a way to work the commons page into the shared interwiki list (stored, once again, somewhere in no man's land) this too could be made easier.
In fact, if there was a way to transclude from another wiki, the problem is solved I think.
{{Commons:iw:Horse-ripping}} could simply return a list of all the interwiki links for that topic. We might need to be slightly smarter about handling interwiki self links (ie, from en to en).
Steve