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sekani nyangulu wrote:
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 extensi
on 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> >
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