[Wikipedia-l] Re: Software Assisted Context Resolution (from\r wikitech-l)

Mon Mar 31 10:58:34 UTC 2003

At Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:28:59 +0200 (CEST), 
Andre Engels (engels at uni-koblenz.de) wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Tim Starling wrote:
> 
> > This is also on wikitech-l, forwarded on to wikipedia-l at 
> Cunctator's
> > request.
> >
> > I've already briefly discussed this with Gary on his user talk 
> page. A few
> > observations:
> >
> > In his proposal below, Gary does not explicitly deal with what 
> happens when
> > a previously unambiguous name is given a second meaning. Here's 
> what I
> > suggest:
> >
> > * The original page is moved to a disambiguated name. This name 
> is selected
> > by the user who creates the second page.
> > * All existing links are updated via the pipe trick to point to 
> the
> > newly-disambiguated primary article.
> 
> Sounds like a bad idea - any pages that previously referred to the 
> old
> page _wrongly_ would now be even more wrong. There will be rare 
> cases where
> one disambiguation subject would be the only one that had links, 
> but more
> commonly there are a few links that go to other disambiguation 
> subjects. So
> I would very much prefer to have disambiguation done by hand, or 
> at least
> under human control.
> 
> Andre Engels

My original idea is for the human to control the disambiguation
process. The software just facilitates the process.

Gary Curtis

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