Even Wikipedia messes with the crisis in Great Britain and suggests it is one of ours

It Politics in Great Britain and the crisis that rocked it Go at such speed in recent months easy to miss by the way. For cases like this, the Wikipedia This is usually a very helpful tool. A simple search on its website is used to access articles that summarize the subject in question and thus get an overview. It problem facing this encyclopedia In the case of the UK, in order to offer adequate information, the person requesting it must be more accurate than usual.

British politics was in such a mess that from Wikipedia they had to make paragraphs asking for thoroughness in searches. (Photo: Capture Wikipedia)

as reported gizmodostarting this Thursday, if an Internet user tries to access information about the crisis of the British government in 2022the result you will get in return is disambiguation page where you are asked to be more specific. Why? Well, because at this time of the year they’ve been two pretty important things that led to the resignation of the prime minister and the prime minister.

The question is, in case English version of Wikipediawhat is this: if someone searches for “2022 UK government crisis”, what they will get is an appreciation explaining that “2022 UK government crisis or crisis may refer to:” then two possible results are offered in chronological order.

The first article offered is one that covers what happened during the July 2022 crisis, some of the “events that led to Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister”. The second relates to “events after the September 2022 mini-budget, culminating in the resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister.”

Currently it only happens in the English version Wikipedia. Everything goes so fast in England that in The Spanish version has not given the time or to create the article which echoes the current crisis at the time this information was written. But the operation of this encyclopedia shows that it won’t be long now.

This disambiguation page, as introduced by Wikipedia arrived, according gizmodo, after causing confusion on the subject while writing about it. The encyclopedia itself has entry for this type of transition page where he explains that “a disambiguation page on Wikipedia is used as a process for resolving conflicts in article titles which occurs when a single term can be associated with more than one topic, making the term the natural title for more than one article. In other words, disambiguation is a path that leads to different articles that could, in principle, have the same title.

And examples they offer to clarify any possible doubts or ambiguities about the use of this page and when they appear is the word ‘mercury’, which, they explained, “could refer to a number of things, including the elements, planets, and Roman gods.” Later, because only one page could generally be called Mercury, other terms were added to define what it referred to.

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