Foreword: As I begin to start making inter-langa links
on the Ar:wikipedia, I (curiously) am remined of the
langalinks issue -- as they might bear bearingly on my
current workload. :) How are they coming -- Is it Mr.
Magnus that is working on these?
More of my fancy ideas about langalinks:
1. Allow for self-language link in page -- which is
ignored.
This would allow for a little easier mass copying of
langalinks. (no typing a last link-- hard work :U )
If a page is moved to a new article -- making the old
one a redirect. Upon this move function, a note is
sent to recurse all the langa links connected to it.
Reading each file, and updating the specific langalink
thats associated with that file. A recursor to the
original links schedules a bot change (with no hurry)
Considering the possibility that all this editing
might generate a lot of bot activity, and cause
mixups, it may then be wise to separate langalinks
from their articles -- an edit window may have a field
at the bottom for only metadata (langalinks for
starters) and this metadata is actually a separate
field, thereby eliminating any unnecessary edit
conflicts. (Does the DB works that way at all?)
-SV
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