In continuation of this, I started discussion on Commons Village Pump
(
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Should_categorie
s_be_in_front_of_interwikis_or_other_way_around.3F ) about order of
different parts of wikicode and Pywikipediabot attempts to standardize
it. In particular I asked for opinions about preferred order of category
and interwiki sections. If any of you are running Pywikipedia bots on
Commons, I would like to invite you to this discussion.
Jarek T.
(user:Jarekt)
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[mailto:pywikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Merlijn
van Deen
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 2:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Interwiki.py on Commons
Hello Jarek,
On 28 November 2011 06:14, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.
<JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI(a)saic.com> wrote:
Apparently on Commons there is no standard if
categories go before interwikis or interwikis before categories, and
according to blocking admin, bots are expected to leave the page in the
order in which they found it.
(...)
Is there any easy solution to this problem?
No, not really. At the moment, what happens is this: first, all
interwiki links are removed from the page. Then, they are added to the
bottom of the page.
This is - in general - a hard problem to work with. For instance, how
should a page like
"blah text [[en:interwiki]] blah blah
[[fr:interwiki]]
[[nl:interwiki]]
[[category:cat]]"
be adapted? And how should a page like
"blah text
[[fr:interwiki]]
[[category:cat]]
[[nl:interwiki]]"
be adapted?
Changing the output to a different, but well-defined order is not that
hard. Determining the correct order is.
In this case, there are two options: thinking up some heuristic and
implementing it, or doing some politics ('hey, if you don't *want*
interwikis....').
If you want to work on the heuristic, the replaceLanguageLinks function
in pywikibot/textlib.py is where you'd want to start.
Good luck (with either method ;-))!
Merlijn