Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:24 UTC
When there is an article win wikipedia, that is written in many different languages. Adding another one language forces the editor to add transwiki links to every language that already exists. Most of the time when article <nowiki>[[en:A]]</nowiki> is the english version of <nowiki>[[ru:A]]</nowiki> it goes both ways, so the addition is redundant. Note: That is not always the case. As for example english article on circumsition is devided into male and female circumsition, but russian one might not. Therefore russian article should link to the broad circumcision article, while all 3 english ones to the single russian one. (please forgive me if i'm not clear enough, it's easier to draw than to explain)
This report describes an aspect of how interwiki linking is difficult (which is why the system therefore works the way it does) but doesn't seem to describe any bugs in the system or propose changes. Closing as INVALID.
As i have said, sorry if i'm not unclear. What i was suggesting was that when you add the transwiki link from one side, it is automatically added to the other side unless the previous linkage already exists.
As you said, that won't work because the mapping isn't one-to-one.
(In reply to comment #3) > As you said, that won't work because the mapping isn't one-to-one. OK, now i think that you just don't want to hear anything here... q;-( What i've said was that if there is a hard link to another language already in place than it should take precedence. However, if none exists, than the page linking from another language should create one.
