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** [patches:#454] cosmetic_changes.py to remove bad wikilinks**

**Status:** closed-rejected **Created:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 09:38 AM UTC by BalaSundaraRaman L **Last Updated:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 09:38 AM UTC **Owner:** nobody

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%5C_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%5C_translation project and the problems we faced ( http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/A%5C_Review%5C_of%5C_Goo... ), 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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