Marc Dangers wrote:

It seems that a lot of people from different Wikipedias are reading this list, and my post is about internationalisation of Wikipedia, so I decided I will try to bring a certain tool to your attention. It’s the Interwiki-Link-Checker (http://tools.wikimedia.de/~flacus/IWLC/start.php) by de:user:Flacus, a brilliant tool which has facilitated the generation of >100.000 Interlanguage-Links within the last six month.

As you might know, there are still lots of articles in one Wikipedia which have the same name as articles in aWikipedia of another language, but are *not* linked by an Interlanguage-Link (e.g. en-de: ~6300 articles, sv-fr: ~2300 articles and nl-pl ~1400 articles, as of the dumps from February 2006).

This articles have been listed for a lot of language combinations by de:user:SirJective. But not all articles with identical names are about the same subject, so human work is needed to decide whether an Interwiki-Link can be automatically inserted by a bot. In order to make this decision easy and comfortable, there is a brilliant tool called Interwiki-Link-Checker written by de:Benutzer:Flacus.

You might want to check the FAQ at

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia_Interwiki-Link-Checke...

or just try it at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~flacus/IWLC/start.php Thanks for your time and (maybe even) help, I can just invite you to try the tool, it's fun and you're reading (and editing) quite a lot of stuff you wouldn't stumble upon otherwise.

If you do like the tool and want to spread the word, visit

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia_Interwiki-Link-Checke...,

help and new ideas are welcome.

Cheers, de:Benutzer:Mdangers

This is an absolutely wonderful tool, both in concept and in actual use. Thanks for doing this!

-- Neil