Steve Bennett schrieb:
On 3/20/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
I spent last night interwiki-ing Norwegian and Catalan, of all things...
I haven't tried this tool, but is it smart enough to know that if en.foo links to fr.foo, and fr.foo links to ca.foo, then en.foo should link to ca.foo? Otherwise this problem seems like a massive amount of manual intervention...
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Actually the different bots based on the pywikipediabot network are smart enough to do this and are responsible for insertion of vast amounts of Interwiki links (IWL). The tool is as yet the only means I know of to at least semi-automatically insert IWLs into articles which are *not* linked to any other language.
Since FlaBot, which is inserting most/lots of the verified IWLs, is also pywikipediabot-based, it is inserting extra IWLs along these lines, e.g. if en: is verified to be the same in de:, extra links to fr: on en: are also inserted in de: (hope this is readable/understandable, you know what I mean, anyway, I guess).
I already tried to persuade Flacus earlier to primarily include articles without any IWL. This would make sense in language pairs with a huge backlog, at least. I came too late, anyway, because just then the February dump data was already included into his database. From personal experience, I believe that this would not make a very big difference, anyway, maybe 10-20% less article pairs.
marc