On Wednesday 11 June 2008 23:03:28 Platonides wrote: > I'm Ccing Wikitech, i suggest we follow this thread there.
I'm answering on the foundation-l, given that I don't follow wikitech-l, you do follow foundation-l, and the issues you raise are more community than software related. > Nikola Smolenski wrote: > > (thread about interwiki bots at toolserver) > > > > Coincidentally, yesterday I released a MediaWiki extension which, if > > accepted on Wikimedia projects, may make interwiki bots much less busy. > > See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interwiki_link > > It also works by manual writing of the interwikis. I don't think it's > the good way. > *You're not taking into account page moves. What will you do when a page > is moved? (by a low tech user which knows nothing about the global wiki) I am taking into account page moves. Right now, when a page is moved, if it has 20 interwiki links, someone has to update 20 pages on 20 Wikipedias. With the extension, someone has to update a single page on a single wiki - clearly, something that is easier to do. > *The articles will still have a 'preferred' title at the interwiki wiki. > That means discussing about article titles, "Move to English name", "No, > that's not", "Interwikis with pages on Chinese are ugly!"... I proposed an easy and fair solution: use the name of the page on the first wiki that covered the topic. If a topic has first been written about on the Vietnamese Wikipedia, use the Vietnamese name. Either way, redirects work, and even edit wars of this kind should pose no problem. > IMHO it should be a shared table referencing the wiki and page ids. > Then you provide a Special page showing all pages on that group. You'd > reference it as 'include this page into the group XX:sometitle is on'. > You can also provide some space for free-form commenting (such as > explaining the difference with another page). > Obviously, all of that must be properly logged, which with SUL should be > much easier. Everything that you described already exists, without the special page. The shared table is the langlinks table on the central wiki; you reference it by using {{#interlanguage:sometitle}}; free-form commenting is the text on the central wiki page; it is properly logged in the page history. _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l
