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Please correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I can see, that kind of interwiki bot issues appear from time to time. (but I am not an interwiki bot expert)
What about creating e.g. an wiki page containing a blacklist for pages that the interwiki bots HAVE TO IGNORE. By using the latest changes irc channel all running interwiki bots can keep track of this blacklist. That way a interwiki bot "super-user" could blacklist all wiki pages that should now have their interwiki links updated at any given moment.
What do you think? Is this that kind of solutions that is considered to be NOT an "easy way to resolve this"? What would be the problems implementing that?
Greetings and Happy Holidays! DrTrigon
On 26.12.2011 10:31, Andre Engels wrote:
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, I am afraid, there is a misunderstanding. I never run onterwiki as a bot owner, there is no point in being the 1001st to do so, if I can do unique bot tasks with more benefit. :-)
I ask this as a user. If one wrong iw gets into 25 good on a page, shall I manually remove it from all the 25 wikis, or is there a simplier way to tell the bots that Ferenc Farkas, a very remarkable esperantist, who has a 2 lines substub in eowiki, is not identical to Ferenc Farkas componist?
You do indeed need to change it from all those wikis. It is typically something that a bot does well, so the best thing to do (if there are more than a handful of languages involved) is probably to contact a bot owner and let them do it. I have taken this message as such a request, and resolved the Ferenc Farkas issue.
However, whether done by bot or manually, there is still the problem that there might be a bot that sees some of the languages before, and others after the change; such a bot would consider the interwiki a 'missing' one on the languages coming afterward, and re-add it. I don't know of an easy way to resolve this, the only thing I can think of is adding an article on the composer on eo:, or on the esperantist on one of the other languages. Or keep an eye at the articles, and keep changing until we get lucky...