On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)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