Hi all,
(I'm re-posting this message because I sent it from the wrong eMail account.)
The page http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/MmHg uses a non-capitalized title, which is realized via {{DISPLAYTITLE:mmHg}}.
This has caused a massive bot editwar, see: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torr&action=history
Some people are already making fun of this at: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kurier
AFAIK, the standard PyWikipediaBot ignores the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} tag, and would therefore use [[no:MmHg]]. Are some people (Ptbotgourou, Louperibot, Loveless, MystBot, SieBot, TXiKiBoT) a modified version which respects {{DISPLAYTITLE}}? Or is there an older release that behaves different from the current version?
I don't care if bots set [[no:mmHg]] or [[no:MmHg]], but they should all work consistently so that there are no edit wars.
Cheers
Daniel
I'm not sure if this is the real issue. They are not fighting between [[no:MmHg]] and [[no:mmHg]] but between [[no:MmHg]] and [[no: mmHg]] : [[no: mmHg]] until the 23rd was a redirect to [[no:MmHg]] and has since then been deleted..
I guess here that the issue implied bots finding the redirect in other wikis, and some not; depending on the set of starting wikis. Then, with different configurations, some would "fix the redirect", and some would not.
I really don't think that this is related to DISPLAYTITLE
2008/9/29 Daniel Herding DHerding@gmx.de:
Hi all,
(I'm re-posting this message because I sent it from the wrong eMail account.)
The page http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/MmHg uses a non-capitalized title, which is realized via {{DISPLAYTITLE:mmHg}}.
This has caused a massive bot editwar, see: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torr&action=history
Some people are already making fun of this at: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kurier
AFAIK, the standard PyWikipediaBot ignores the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} tag, and would therefore use [[no:MmHg]]. Are some people (Ptbotgourou, Louperibot, Loveless, MystBot, SieBot, TXiKiBoT) a modified version which respects {{DISPLAYTITLE}}? Or is there an older release that behaves different from the current version?
I don't care if bots set [[no:mmHg]] or [[no:MmHg]], but they should all work consistently so that there are no edit wars.
Cheers
Daniel
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Nicolas Dumazet nicdumz@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the real issue. They are not fighting between [[no:MmHg]] and [[no:mmHg]] but between [[no:MmHg]] and [[no: mmHg]] : [[no: mmHg]] until the 23rd was a redirect to [[no:MmHg]] and has since then been deleted..
I guess here that the issue implied bots finding the redirect in other wikis, and some not; depending on the set of starting wikis. Then, with different configurations, some would "fix the redirect", and some would not.
I really don't think that this is related to DISPLAYTITLE
In that case, what was going on with the bots that changed [[no:MmHg]] to [[no: mmHg]]? Since the second was a redirect to the first, the bot should always use the first rather than the second.
By the way, I think that for the DISPLAYTITLE function, it is best to leave it as it is. If not, the bot would have to build in a comparison between displaytitle and 'URL title' too, because if (for example) [[en:Long s]] would have {{DISPLAYTITLE:ſ}} it should definitely NOT be corrected, because one would end up at a completely different page.
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