Bugs item #2803753, was opened at 2009-06-09 22:15 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nicdumz You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=2803753...
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: v1.0 (example)
Status: Closed Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: xqt (xqt) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: interwiki sorting
Initial Comment: Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r6943, Jun 07 2009, 12:46:54) Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
It seems there is a wrong interwiki sorting on af-wiki. The sorting is done by language code but it should done by language name. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Xqt#Your_edits_on_the_Afrikaans_Wikip...] for the report and [http://af.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=473971&oldid=473782] for an example.
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Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Date: 2009-06-11 11:48
Message: Thank you for your understanding, closing the bug as invalid.
Again, if you can think of a better way to explain IW sorting policy on the meta page, please give it a try: you apparently got confused, it can happen to others. If, by adding a few lines of explanation, you can avoid troubles to others, that would be great ;)
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Comment By: xqt (xqt) Date: 2009-06-10 17:20
Message: Thanks for explaining it. I got a response about this assumed irregularity but it is all right. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Xqt&redirect=no#Your...) This request may be closed. Thanks a lot!
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Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz) Date: 2009-06-10 09:56
Message: well alphabetic and alphabetic_revised is an ordering type. You see "af" in this list, because it defines how links to af should be ordered in the wikis using that order.
To see which wikis use that order, see under the definition:
For example, for alphabetic, only en/lb/no/simple/pl use this order. And users of alphabetic order are ms/et/fi/vo wikipedias.
Since no specific order is specified for af, the default order is used (By order of alphabet, based on language code). Do you understand now?
If you think that the page could use some clarifications to improve readability, please go ahead ;)
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Comment By: xqt (xqt) Date: 2009-06-10 09:49
Message: Is this quite right? af is listed at self.alphabetic and self.alphabetic_revised at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_sorting_order
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Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz) Date: 2009-06-10 00:20
Message: Hello.
According to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_sorting_order this behavior is correct: the default sort order is used for af.
If the afrikaans wikipedia wants to change their sort order, I am fine with it, but they need to _first_ edit the meta page (linking to a local wikipedia page which shows consensus) and then ask here for the change. If we don't follow this process, then pywikipedia bots will use one sort order, phpwikipedia bots will use another sort order, etc.... and it's not going to look pretty.
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