Re: [Foundation-l] interwiki links

2011-03-31 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:02:22 +0200, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: > 2011/3/23 WereSpielChequers : >> But how would this process handle situations such as the EN wiki >> article [[David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley]] having an interwiki >> link to the DE article on his late mother? Currently this c

Re: [Foundation-l] interwiki links

2011-03-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/3/23 WereSpielChequers : > But how would this process handle situations such as the EN wiki > article [[David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley]] having an interwiki > link to the DE article on his late mother? Currently this comes up as > a death anomaly because one is living but the other dec

[Foundation-l] interwiki links

2011-03-23 Thread WereSpielChequers
I can see the merit of having a central repository for interwiki links, currently an article like Barack Obama exists on well over a hundred versions of Wikipedia, so when each of the hundred projects that doesn't currently have such an article creates one there will be over a hundred bot edits to

[Foundation-l] Interwiki links revisited

2010-06-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There have been a lot of angry words about the interwiki links being unavailable by default. Aggressive words like "lynching" have been used. It has been suggested that the availability is against what the Wikimedia Foundation stands for. The fact of the matter is that it is exactly this negat