Interwiki

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Interwiki links reduce the complexity and help focus and filter wiki content so that the most qualified individuals and robust processes, which may be very different for different types of information, can be brought to bear on a "knowledge management" (or instructional capital development) problem.

Interwiki synchronization is a major concern of the Wikimedia Foundation which has worked towards more robust maps of any given wiki's interwiki links [1]. A somewhat confused account refers to synonyms, attempts to conflate as if they were necessarily attempts to obscure or confuse or as "conflicts", ignoring the different ontologies of different natural languages that complicate interlanguage links ( see also universal translator). However, the quote is self-evident:

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. [2]

For Consumerium itself, some uses of interwiki are:

  • to spread liability for contentious or erroneous information to those who are most committed to keeping it accurate, or most afraid of it being inaccurate
  • to identify and translate news relevant to buying criteria or corporate behavior so that a lack of reporting in one language does not cause Consumerium to fail in that language (as it can rely on reports from other languages, for instance bringing them into view of the buying consumer)
  • to simplify the functions of various namespaces and develop a deeper wiki/namespace/page structure to allow for variant privacy policies and liability policies and dispute resolutions in Consumerium governance