On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this is a week point of our system. Work of Wikipedia is based on > the approach that all the mistakes are easier to correct than to prevent. A > vandal may "work" on several pages to be vandalized, and I can revert them > in a few seconds. Or someone writes an article with a wrong title, I can > easily rename it. But here to commit the mistake is easy (one wrong iw into > one article), and, by means of bots, the correction gets difficult. This is > a system inversion. > > We should invent a systematical solution to this problem. I thought on some > hidden comment next to a wrong iw that has a meaning for the bots to pick > that iw out of all articles, and never put back. Or just never into that > very article. (I just got Dr. Trigon's mail in the minute, that's another > approach for the same problem, also a good point to start thinking.) A more far-reaching and better solution has already been discussed for years, namely porting the interwikis to a separate (wiki) site, so that such changes can be made at once for all languages rather than having to be done separately at each. Maybe that will be worked on with the data project the Germans are setting up. -- André Engels, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
