Since there has been so much discussion about Interlanguage links recently, i thought that it would be appropriate to raise another issue, which has already been raised several times on Bugzilla, Meta and Wikitech-l, but has not garnered enough attention.
I am referring to the problem with the current implementation of Interlanguage links as a list of language codes with target article names, which is placed at the end of the article's source in each language. This makes the links a nightmare to maintain: doing it by hand is practically impossible, so it is done by bots. The bots add a huge number of not-very-useful edits to article histories, which is somewhat annoying, but functionally they do a lot of the work Right. They can't be perfect, however, because interwiki conflicts often occur. A simpler solution was proposed and implemented by Nikola Smolenski about two years ago (see the links at the end). It still haven't been enabled in the live WMF projects because of technical issues, which seemed to me rather minor (although i might be wrong). Wikitech-l is probably the right technical forum to discuss it, but i wondered whether anyone of the less technical people are interested in it. Links for reference: * http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:A_central_wiki_for_interlanguage_links * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link (its talk page has important discussions!) * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_conflicts Thanks for your attention. -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
