I am sure that, if it were of interest, one coudl remove interwiki links and categories while analizing the pages... or am I missing something? I however would hesitate to remove the information from the revision history: how to revert damage to the meta-information? (Yes, better ways to compress the revision history are very much needed, for the working version, but this is another issue)... I hope my comments are on topic; I am not sure I understand the point.
Luca
On Jan 30, 2008 1:27 PM, P. Birken pbirken@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry for bringing this age old thread up again, but reading through it again, I often thought: things would be easier, if Metadata were not in the articles themselves, but separate. Then, the version history would be trimmed dramatically and nobody could build up trust (meaning both the real and the algorithmic sense) by category-edits only. This would make life dramatically easier for the bots and easier for users.
Is getting the metadata (category, interwikis, Personendaten on de) out of the articles remotely feasible? Is the positive impact as good as I think?
Best
Philipp
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