Talk:Q29957041

Removing bs, sr, sh

@Laurdecl: Please do not remove bs, sr and sh links because these articles called only "WannaCry" are not only about the software; they are about the attack in particular and it might be case for English wiki after merging "WannaCry" into "WannaCry ransomware attack" and/or maybe renaming the latter into the former. --Obsuser (talk) 08:54, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

@Obsuser: The balkan Wikipedia articles are really about the software. Compare the Bosnian version: "WannaCry... is ransomware" and the English: "The WannaCry ransomware attack is an ongoing cyberattack". The articles you link have a section on the event, but are not about the event. The enwiki version does not talk about the software as much as it does the attack itself. For Wikidata, the question is: does the article describe an instance of cyberattack, or an instance of malware, and the articles you link describe the latter. Laurdecl ^talk 09:03, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

@Laurdecl: No, please translate on Google Translate and you will see that all three (I copied from bs.wiki and expanded according to en.wiki "WannaCry ransomware attack"; then sh.wiki user took that from sr.wiki) describe whole topic. There is infobox, there are attacked countries etc. – it is not a stub about worm as en.wiki "WannaCry" currently is (when it was translated on bs.wiki, English title for the "attack" was only "WannaCry", then the page was moved). --Obsuser (talk) 09:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

@Obsuser: Yes, the Bosnian article says WannaCry is ransomware and then in brackets: (blackmailing software, a type of malicious software). Perhaps you should reword the lead to clarify that the article is about the attack, not the worm (and move the page)? The English lead is "The WannaCry ransomware attack is an ongoing cyberattack of the WannaCry ransomware computer worm". The worm might warrant its own article, separate from the attack. It is very confusing trying to decide which articles are about the worm and which about the attack. Laurdecl ^talk 09:26, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

@Laurdecl: It is still a fresh subject; there are currently two proposals on en.wiki (merging into "WannaCry ransomware attack", in which case it is on every language project to choose name of article separately and link it to one Wikidata item ; and renaming of the article).

Articles on bs, sr and sh are describing whole thing, with infobox, map, countries etc., not only worm (it would be stub if it was only about about worm). --Obsuser (talk) 10:28, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Now English "WannaCry" is merged into "WannaCry ransomware attack", as I supposed it will be. I added links. --Obsuser (talk) 16:49, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Ok, so shouldn't it be every wikipedia article in the "ransomware attack" item? Martinligabue (talk) 19:41, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

@Obsuser: What have you done? There are language versions, like Spain, where there are still two articles: WannaCry ransomware attack and WannaCry. This is now broken. My proposal would be to keep both items, but Wikipedia instances with only one article have to create a redirect like this one or this one. --TheRandomIP (talk) 22:29, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

I agree, I did not move those that were already linked to both items (i.e. they have separate articles). User:Fixuture removed those. They are added back now. --Obsuser (talk) 23:02, 24 May 2017 (UTC)