Bugs item #1891060, was opened at 2008-02-11 11:35 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by wikipedian You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=1891060...

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: namespace['mul'][100] in various Wikipedias

Initial Comment: I am getting currently excessive: WARNING: Family file wikipedia includes namespace['mul'][100], but it should be removed (namespace doesn't exist in the site) for various Wikipedias when running interwiki.py. I cannot believe that two dozen sites removed their NS 100's at once. So I believe in a bug.

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Comment By: Daniel Herding (wikipedian)

Date: 2008-02-11 19:42

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I think we should just ask the Wikimedia devs to add the missing portal namespaces.

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Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha) Date: 2008-02-11 19:40

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Probably, this could be an occasion to ask communities to ask for 'real' namespaces for their portal pages? Is it worthwile the developer/db-admin/server admin labour? Many wikis have only few such pages, afaik.

Alternatively, I agree, the pseudo NS could be specialcased, as rotemliss suggests.

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Comment By: Rotem Liss (rotemliss) Date: 2008-02-11 18:55

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The problem shouldn't be treated this way, as the namespaces don't exist, and treating them as though they are exist may cause other bugs (e.g. treating the talk pages). I suggest to maintain a list of such pseudo-namespaces, either in interwiki.py or in the family file, and use them in interwiki.py.

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Comment By: Alleborgo (alleborgo) Date: 2008-02-11 18:33

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Yes, now there are many warning messages but interwiki on the portals pages are correct propagated. If we rollback to the previous version we'll remove the warning message but we'll obtain the namespace mismatch message and the script will not work on portal pages.

Maybe the best solution is to suggest to set those name as the namespace 100 which they are, doesn't?

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Comment By: Rotem Liss (rotemliss) Date: 2008-02-11 14:55

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If the namespace is not defined in MediaWiki as such, it should not be defined in pywikipediabot. If it is defined, it appears in Special:Export. Thus, the pseudo-namespaces should be removed from the family file.

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Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha) Date: 2008-02-11 14:08

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Ah, ok, the problem is from the other side, then. Now I believe, when interwiki.py reads the xml output from the wikis that it gets sets of pages from, that it either does not recognize NS 100+ in the XML, or the XML does not include them in the header.

I've inspected my user page data exported via http://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibar:Export and found that, it mentiones NS up to 15, but no more. The br Wikipedia is one of those displaying the message, but http://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibar:Allpages also only shows 15 NS.

Now, I am lost. Could it be that, you mistook some "Portal:somename" as extra name spaces that actually are part of NS 0, the article name space, while these names look like an extra namespace?

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Comment By: Alleborgo (alleborgo) Date: 2008-02-11 11:45

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It's not a bug. I have manually inserted 22 namespace translations for "Portal" which are "de facto" used in those languages. Actually I don't know where is the problem but, yes, the bot understand those portal namespace translations as wrong. But they're right ;)

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