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:Within a few days i'll complete the roll-out of this way of working in the Russian Wikipedia. If there are no comments here, i'll be bold and start rewriting the main page of this project in accordance with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Interlanguage Links/Ideas from the Hebrew Wikipedia]].

:If you read Russian, see: [[:ru:Википедия:Проект:Интервики]]. --[[User:Amire80|Amir E. Aharoni]] ([[User talk:Amire80|talk]]) 17:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

==Wrong interwiki links in many disambiguation pages==

''Note: Already posted in [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation]].''

Many interwiki links in disambiguation pages are bogus. Here is the problem:<br/>

*Let's say that word '''W1''' has meanings '''m1''', '''m2''' and '''m3''' in language '''L1'''.

**Then we create a disambiguation page <nowiki>[[L1:W1]], with links to articles [[L1:W1 (m1)]], [[L1:W1 (m2)]], and [[L1:W1 (m3)]].</nowiki>

*Let's say that word '''W2''' has meanings '''m1''', '''m4''' and '''m5''' in language '''L2'''.

**Then we create a disambiguation page <nowiki>[[L2:W2]], with links to articles [[L2:W2 (m1)]], [[L2:W2 (m4)]], and [[L2:W2 (m5)]].</nowiki>.

*Let's say that word '''W3''' has meanings '''m2''' and '''m6''' in language '''L3'''.

**Then we create a disambiguation page <nowiki>[[L3:W3]], with links to articles [[L3:W3 (m2)]], and [[L3:W3 (m6)]].</nowiki>

Clearly, <nowiki>[[L2:W2]] has nothing in common with [[L3:W3]] (not the same word, not the same meanings). So, there should be no interwiki links between [[L2:W2]] and [[L3:W3]]</nowiki>. The problem is that it happens. Why?<br />It happens because somebody linked <nowiki>[[L1:W1]] to [[L2:W2]]</nowiki> because of the shared '''m1''' meaning, then somebody else linked <nowiki>[[L3:W3]] to [[L1:W1]]</nowiki> because of the shared '''m2''' meaning. Then robots linked everything together.

The root of the problem is that interwiki between disambiguation pages should not be based on meanings (actually one meaning among several in one language), but on the word itself. A disambiguation page is about a word.

The disambiguation page <nowiki>[[L1:W1]]</nowiki> should only have interwiki links to <nowiki>[[Ln:W1]]</nowiki> disambiguation pages in other languages (they are disambiguation pages for the '''W1''' word). The disambiguation page <nowiki>[[L2:W2]]</nowiki> should only have interwiki links to <nowiki>[[Ln:W2]]</nowiki> disambiguation pages in other languages (they are disambiguation pages for the '''W2''' word)... [[User:Marc Mongenet|Marc Mongenet]] ([[User talk:Marc Mongenet|talk]]) 19:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)