The Bot WikitanvirBot_I<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:WikitanvirBot_I> is redirected ( http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/editsummary/index.php?name=WikitanvirBot+I&…) on December 2010. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:14 PM, BalaSundaraRaman &lt;sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com&gt;wrote;wrote: -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্‌টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। ______________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in-wb(a)lists.wikimedia.org &lt;Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb<https://lis… _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Hello, I'm the operator of that bot. So, I've something to say on this concerns. That bot only made redirects. Bengali needs third party keyboard support to write, also there are keyboard variations. So, in many cases most of our readers can't write in Bengali while they can see. So, to help our readers, we decided to make redirects in English titles to the existing Bengali articles. In an article, the bot looked to the enwiki interwiki link and made a page on Bengali Wikipedia of that title and redirected that page to the existing Bengali article. But I know, it supposed to be around 22,000 redirects if I ran the bot like this. But there are questions. I hope you all know, every articles have different titles to be searched (case sensitivity, also other names, misspelled names..). For example, Rabindranath Tagore can be searched as "Rabindranath Thakur", "Rabindra Nath Tagore", "Rabindra Nath Thakur", "Rabithakur", "Robithakur".. as so on. It will take a long time to be done by human. So once, my bot found the en interwiki, it searched for the existing redirects of that enwiki articles (since enwiki is far more advanced in this case), and made redirects of that titles too. In this way readers can be guided to their desired articles easily. Personally I think redirects are not evil. Even enwiki articles also have millions of redirects. Thanks for your understanding. Regards, Tanvir Rahman [[User:Wikitanvir]] On all Wikimedia projects [[m:User:Wikitanvir]] For Wikimedia site matrix On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Bala Jeyaraman &lt;sodabottle(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l