On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:56:51 -0500, Stephen Forrest stephen.forrest@gmail.com wrote:
I've seen essentially two problems as is:
- links to new translations don't get added everywherewikipedia
- erroneous cross-language links can persist even after being
corrected somewhere
Robots can solve the first problem but not the second. An example of the second is 'Germanic languages'. There are not too many wikipedias that have any entry for this topic specifically. However, someone had linked a number of them to the equivalent for 'German language' in other wikipedias, probably not realizing the difference.
I don't see how a robot could solve this problem without semantic knowledge of the equivalents of 'Germanic language' in various languages.
As a bot writer and operator, I can say that bots _could_ help in finding this kind of cases. We might go work more on it (the bot notices it if it can get to two pages on the same language - in this case "Germanic languages" and "German language"). There's quite a number of such problems; a common cause is that when a page turns into a disambiguation page on some Wikipedia, the interwiki links to it are usually not changed.
Andre Engels