Bugs item #1731566, was opened at 2007-06-05 20:04 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by rotemliss You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=1731566...

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Resolution: Invalid

Priority: 6 Private: No Submitted By: André Malafaya Baptista (malafaya) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Incorrect removal of Chinese interwiki link

Initial Comment: I was warned by a user that a interwiki link was incorrectly removed by my bot.

I manually ran the bot against the affected article:

interwiki.py -lang:en -family:wikipedia Japanese_literature

In the end, it says:

NOTE: [[zh:????]] does not exist

Changes to be made: Removing: [[zh:????]] ERROR: Found incorrect link to zh in [[en:Japanese literature]] Submit? ([y]es, [n]o)

I tried clicking on the original interwiki link and it is working: the page does exist. The removal is not right.

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Comment By: Andre Engels (a_engels) Date: 2008-02-13 16:41

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I gave this a 'WONT FIX' - the fix to this would be in Mediawiki rather than the bot code

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw) Date: 2007-06-20 18:17

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The only possible way to fix this is using index.php. api.php and query.php fail to normalize the titles, too.

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Comment By: André Malafaya Baptista (malafaya) Date: 2007-06-09 22:17

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I manually changed the zh: interwiki to match the article's ortography. For this article, it's solved.

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Comment By: Andre Engels (a_engels) Date: 2007-06-06 00:42

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The problem is caused by the Chinese traditional (zh-tw)/simplified (zh-cn) double orthography.

The page links to [[zh:日本文學]], but if you go to the page, you'll see you actually end up at [[zh:日本文学]]. This is the same in simplified instead of traditional characters, and when you try to go to a page in traditional characters, you are automatically taken to its simplified equivalent (under standard settings).

Unfortunately, the same does NOT occur when using [[Special:Export]]. That's what the bot uses, and when there a traditional title is given, no page is found. Because of this the bot assumes the page does not exist. I have earlier submitted this for correction in MediaWiki, but it doesn't seem likely it will actually be solved there anytime soon (see http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9419).

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Comment By: André Malafaya Baptista (malafaya) Date: 2007-06-05 20:09

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P.S.: "-array" switch doesn't seem to be working.

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