Patches item #3017517, was opened at 2010-06-17 02:38
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Submitted By: BalaSundaraRaman L (lsundar)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: cosmetic_changes.py to remove bad wikilinks
Initial Comment:
Translated articles created using
http://translate.google.com/toolkit?hl=en suffer from
one complex issue. It creates links to impossible pages in the target wiki. Let's take
the example below:
( Excerpt from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_governance )
A related but separate thread of discussions focuses on the impact of a corporate
governance system in [[economic efficiency]], with a strong emphasis on shareholders'
welfare.
This when translated to Tamil, for example, will have a single word for "in economic
efficiency" and the tool wrongly links to that phrase. Since article title can't
be of the form "in economic efficiency", it'll remain a red link forever.
Since articles are littered with such red links, it's hard to read.
In view of the large-scale
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Google_translation project and the
problems we faced (
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/A_Review_of_Google_Tran…
), I've developed a patch for cosmetic_changes.py which'll remove red links of the
form [[some phrase]] leaving out cases where the label is different from the target.
I've attached the patch as well. The changes by my bot running the modified code is at
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SundarBot
If approved, I can give it to a dedicated bot operator with the translation team.
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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw)
Date: 2012-03-21 11:02
Message:
housekeeper's note: the patch does not apply cleanly to r10035
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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw)
Date: 2012-03-21 09:45
Message:
Shouldn't this be in fixes.py?
In any case, I'm having some trouble understanding the goal of the added
parameters in this patch.
Last but not, what is the /generic/ use for this? The problem you're
solving (which is, as I understand it, unlinking all links, or all red
links) sounds awfully specific for tawiki, so I'm not sure if adding this
to pwb is useful.
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Comment By: BalaSundaraRaman L (lsundar)
Date: 2010-06-17 23:00
Message:
The changes will be visible when run in the following manner:
python cosmetic_changes.py -fewerlinks -keepblue -file:listofarticles.txt
For a diff of its changes, please check
http://is.gd/cTJWr
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