Support Requests item #1813173, was opened at 2007-10-14 13:22
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Submitted By: André Malafaya Baptista (malafaya)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: 'Title ... not found in list. Expected one of ...'
Initial Comment:
I'm constantly getting this message while processing [[en:Democratic Republic of the
Congo]]:
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Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:ka...
BUG>> title kongos demokratiuli respublika ([[ka:kongos demokratiuli respublika]])
not found in list
Expected one of: [[ka:kongos demokratiuli respublika?]]
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The ka article (title is yellow/transliterated) existswithout the '?'. Why does
the bot expect the page title to have that '?' at the end?
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Comment By: André Malafaya Baptista (malafaya)
Date: 2007-10-24 22:03
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Is there any way of going around this? Maybe by using the article name
returned by Special:Export instead of the name given by the interwiki
(being aware of redirects)? This problem is expanding because one bad new
interwiki is enough for the bot to spread the mistake to all Wikipedias and
then it's harder to correct.
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Comment By: André Malafaya Baptista (malafaya)
Date: 2007-10-24 00:14
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It seems interwiki.py itself is adding those invisible characters.
Take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Williamsburg%2C_Colorado&diff…
There you can see a first bot add (by Rei-bot) which adds a pt interwiki
with invisible character.
The next change by MalafayaBot happens after I manually correct one of the
interwikis by removing the invisible character.
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Comment By: Daniel Herding (wikipedian)
Date: 2007-10-14 23:48
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This happens with titles that include invisible left-to-right or
right-to-left control characters. These are omitted in Special:Export or
something like that, I have forgotten what exactly happens.
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Comment By: André Malafaya Baptista (malafaya)
Date: 2007-10-14 14:05
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I think I got to a conclusion:
there seemed to be an invisible character in the ka interwiki in all
Wikipedias. After deleting and retyping the interwiki in English Wikipedia
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo&…)4484995),
the bot now says there are 2 interwikis while processing: one plain title
and the other one with the yellow '?'.
The problem is that apparently when the bot fetches the page 'kongos
demokratiuli respublika?' it actually works and fetches the page 'kongos
demokratiuli respublika' (as if it were an implicit redirect).
Another problem is that the bot tries to replace the bad interwiki (the
one with '?') by the correct one (without it), MediaWiki detects 'no
changes' and just ignores the page update. So the incorrect interwiki will
still prevail until a major update to the page by the bot is made.
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