On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I do think it's unacceptable that Interwiki bots
go in and change the
order of interwikis against the agreed-upon orders at each Wiki.
I remember a while back, we agreed on en.wp to order interwiki links
by code, and it seems that the bots never cared - ja: always came
after nl: rather than after it:. I'm not sure if a different policy
has been decided since then, but bots have always been oblivious, it
seems.
So, this should be solved. And I think that pywikipedibot (maybe more
than 90% WM bots) implements that for a long time. It is even possible
to change the order from wiki to wiki and it is integrated in the code
of PWB framework.