Bugs item #2685388, was opened at 2009-03-12 18:35 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by silvonen You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=2685388...
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: interwiki Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: interwiki bot shouldn't replace redirects
Initial Comment: According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:R#NOTBROKEN, links to non-broken redirects should not be fixed, thus e.g. this bot edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Extended_SMTP&curid=1064104&am... (changing de link from redirect page to subsection) is not correct, and this behaviour should be fixed.
Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r6506, Mar 11 2009, 17:54:39) Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
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Comment By: Mikko Silvonen (silvonen) Date: 2009-03-17 18:28
Message: Is anybody listening...? Other users are telling me that my bot violates this convention on the English Wikipedia by replacing redirects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:R#NOTBROKEN
Or should I just start using the -noredirect option and ignore all the misspellings in interwiki links?
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Comment By: Mikko Silvonen (silvonen) Date: 2009-03-13 06:57
Message: I got this wish also on my bot talk page.
In general it may be impossible to distinguish "good" redirect pages from "bad" ones automatically (and my feeling is that most redirects encountered by bots are the result of initially misspelled page titles), but could we assume that redirects pointing to subsections are always good ones? I haven't thought about all the consequences.
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