Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki conflicts

2009-01-08 Thread Platonides
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_synchronization The last one is my own creation, which has surprisingly caught on; Unfortunately i haven't had much time to maintain it lately, and i'd be very glad if someone could help with that. I think it's popular because

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki conflicts

2009-01-07 Thread Simon Walker
2009/1/7 Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com: As far as I know the only exception to that is the images from Commons, You missed CentralAuth. :) (suppose the 'interwiki database' is down for writing, what do we do when someone tries to edit a page?) Central editing of those would solve that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki conflicts

2009-01-06 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2009/1/6 Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: In the longer term, we need to redesign the interwiki links into a centralized system, that can be maintained. I think the way to do this is to use Wikimedia Commons.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki conflicts

2009-01-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
David Gerard schrieb: But basically: treating interwiki links as a 1-1 relationship even from one wiki to another is horribly unreliable, and assuming you can go from wiki A to wiki B to wiki C with interwiki links is just not doable reliably with robots. If you only look at language-links

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki conflicts

2009-01-06 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: The Category:Politicians in many languages has an interwiki link to the Armenian (hy:) category for political scientists. I fixed the English Wikipedia (manually) and the North European languages (by bot), but some 50

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki conflicts

2009-01-06 Thread Andre Engels
There's one problem with these interwiki links that has not yet been mentioned in this thread: Not rarely when I have finally sorted out two subjects, and kept only those interwiki that are to the same subject, someone comes around and tells me that I should not be removing correct interwiki