[Wikipedia-l] Disambiguation detector

Thu May 29 09:22:54 UTC 2003

Lee Daniel Crocker wrote in response to me:

>That's a bit complex, but maybe it could be made to work. The analogy
>to language links doesn't quite work for me because some human editor
>has actually gone to the trouble of noting that the fr:chat article is
>an appropriate French version of en:cat, whereas these will be fully
>automatic. But I agree that it's a reasonably safe bet that X (Y) is
>somehow related to X, X (Z), and X (disambiguation), because our
>conventions here have created that association, so it's somewhat human-
>created.

I don't think that one should stress much of an *analogy* to language links.
It should go no farther than that the place where language links now lie
would be a good place (one a separate line) to place these as well.

>Another issue is performance. Perhaps we could help both of those
>issues by making a single link to a list page rather than a set of
>links. But what to call that list is tricky. Is isn't really "related
>pages" because they're only related lexigographically, not semantically.
>Perhaps it could be something like "Other 'Foo' pages".

Or [[Foo (disambiguation)]]! ^_^

-- Toby