Re: interwiki conflicts discussion

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[Wikipedia-l] interwiki conflicts discussion> > Hello everyone,> > Interwiki
conflicts are a pain.> > Bot operators receive warnings about them, but
often do not fix them,> probably because they are reluctant to tamper
manually with projects> in languages that they don't know. The result is
that groups of> interwiki-linked articles remain unmaintained.> > One
technical solution that may ease this pain is Nikola Smolenski's>
"Interlanguage" extension. The central hub for its discussion is this> page
in meta:> *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link> >
Being very eager about interlanguage linking, i decided to Be Bold and>
opened a MediaZilla request to enable this extension in Wikimedia> projects.
It is supposed to be discussed on wikitech-l.> > However, this is only a
partial solution. Enabling this extension will> make resolving conflicts
technically easier, but it still must be done> by a human editor. I am
studying linguistics and i have a pretty good> intuition for guessing the
content of Wikipedia articles in languages> that i don't know, so i often
make thorough fixes in interwiki> conflicts across different Wikipedias.
Automatic translation sometimes> helps, too. However, i cannot really know
all languages and i cannot> be familiar with all the different policies and
cultures of different> projects. Finally, it's way too much work for me to
complete all by> myself.> > Therefor, a culture of discussing this between
Wikipedias needs to> develop somehow. (Other Wikimedia projects can
participate in this,> too; i am familiar mostly with Wikipedia.)> > In
another Being-Bold initiative, i started this page in meta:> *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_synchronization> > It's a very
preliminary and experimental page. I have many more ideas> about it, but
it's a start.> > You are already welcome to comment on the case that i
opened there,> "Black box"; comments from French speakers are particularly
needed.> You are also welcome to add cases of your own. You are welcome to>
write a bot that will automate the implementation of the discussion>
outcomes. Etc.> > I hope that a new era of interwiki links is beginning.> >
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