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Subject:    [Wikipedia-l] Re: Interwiki redirects disabled
From:       Arwel Parry <arwel () cartref ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2005-03-31 11:04:52
Message-ID: d2glef$osh$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Arwel Parry wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
> 
>> Arwel: It's a good idea. Do you already have it enabled in Welsh
>> though (ie bilingual), or are they all in English currently?
>>  
>>
> It's been bilingual almost since we were converted to MediaWiki.
> 
>> I think that would massively cut down on the amount of redirect 
>> vandalism.

I'm afraid I don't think it's such a good idea now - later last night 
the vandal returned (though he limited his vandalism to redirecting my 
talk page to "fr:en:Image:autofellatio_2.jpg") and he has already found 
out what the Welsh for "redirect" is! :(

Looking at the debate on [[en:WP:IFD]] on deleting that image, I'm 
rather discouraged that the majority seems to be adopting an 
ultraliberal permissive view of the desirability of this type of image, 
regardless of its' being a vandal magnet with deleterious effects on 
minor language wikipedias, and not being particularly necessary to 
illustrate an article.

>>
>> Similarly, if the interface of aa.wikipedia were actually in Afar,
>> people would stop using it for their stupid tests.
>>
>> Speaking of which, a lot of people who make new pages on inactive
>> Wikipedias seem to have typed the URL wrong. For example, if somebody
>> meant to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa, they might
>> accidentally go to http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa and then not
>> realise they're actually at the Druk Yul (dragon language) Wikipedia.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:03 +0100, Arwel Parry
>> <arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> After spending five hours straightening out cy.wikipedia today, Deb and
>>> I were wondering if it would be worthwhile / possible to remove the
>>> #redirect command in English, so that potential non-Welsh-speaking
>>> vandals would at least have to learn what the Welsh for "redirect"
>>> actually is before they try to screw up the database.

-- 
Arwel Parry
http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/

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