User talk:Leucosticte/WikiProject Interwiki Integration

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 * en:Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) --Timeshifter 02:51, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Where does it end
I guess interwiki integration could theoretically go on forever, unless at some point a centralized, worldwide database is created to serve all the wikis. We already have methods for integrating namespaces, which are divisions within a wiki. We have also created some interwiki integration for wikis on the same wiki farm. Now we're going to create ways for wiki farms to integrate with one another. But then, what about integration of different groups of wiki farms? (E.g., how will my wiki farm integrate with yours?) And then integration of different groups of groups of wiki farms? (E.g., how will the wiki farm group created by the integration of your and my wiki farm integrate with other wiki farm groups?) And so on. Tisane 14:20, 1 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Indeed, you need to keep a sense of perspective. Where it "ends" is when technical issues become social ones.  As pointed out in the discussion on enwiki, merging, say, enwiki and enwiktionary is not a technical question, it's a unification of two communities, policies, and ethea which is arguably not desirable.  It's easy to sit in enwiki, the largest collaborative project in human history, and make grand plans to merge the entire world into it; but the question of whether that's realistic goes far beyond mere technical feasibility.
 * My suggestion would be to not bite off more than you can chew, and to avoid the social challenges when there is still a huge amount of technical work to be done. There is a huge amount that can be done to improve the technical implementation of the social structure we have already, without worrying about making grander changes still.  Happy ‑ melon 14:44, 1 June 2010 (UTC)