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Interwiki synchronization

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This page is intended to host discussions between representatives from individual wikis regarding interlanguage links between Wikipedia articles.

Interlanguage links can often become entangled in conflicts. For example, if the page en:Emergency medical technician links to fr:Ambulancier, but fr:Ambulancier links to en:Paramedic, this is a conflict. This confuses the readers of Wikipedia and usually cannot be automatically maintained by interwiki bots (such as Interwiki.py). This inability to maintain links automatically frequently leads to lack of updates, stale links etc.

The task of synchronizing these links manually is hard, but challenging and interesting. A central hub for discussing this will foster further cooperation and concord between different language Wikipedias.

Encyclopedic truth is universal, so parallel ontology between Wikipedias in different languages is usually desirable, but it is important to emphasize that no Wikipedia can force its ontology on other Wikipedias, and any significant changes of this kind must be decided by consensus.

Future directions

In the future the technology of interlanguage links may significantly change thanks to the Interlanguage Extension; see A newer look at the interlanguage link. When this happens, the discussions about interwiki synchronization may move to the wiki that will be set up for this extension.

Opening a new case

  • After creating the case page, add its name to the top of the list in the "Current discussions section".

Current discussions

Black box

These articles discuss several separate things:

  • Various kinds of recording devices for transportation accident research - Flight Data Recorder (FDR), Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), etc.
  • The concept of "black box" in engineering and informatics - a module whose internal functionality is not important.
  • Some of the pages are disambiguation pages.

Many existing links are broken due to non-maintenance by bots for a long time because of numerous conflicts.

A proposal for organization:

FDR + CVR

  Done

FDR only

  Done

CVR only

Transportation in general

  Done

Computer science and philosophy

  Done

These concepts are closely related in these different fields.

Disambiguation

  Done

Here we have a problem in French: There's a disambig page called fr:Boîte noire (homonymie) ("black box" in French) and another page called fr:Black Box, in the English spelling. My proposal would be to remove all interwiki links to and from fr:Black Box as this is not an encyclopedic, but a linguistic problem.

Delete

  Done

All these links are dead and should be deleted from all the above articles.

Discussion

I propose to relink all the articles as in the list above. Your comments are welcome. --Amir E. Aharoni 14:17, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusion

  Done


See also

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