Rob Church wrote:
On 01/04/07, Jeffrey V. Merkey jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
I try to not post to the English Wikipedia or its mailing lists. The problem was reported on Foundation-l with a courtesty notice to the developers who control the dumps of the problem.
We control the dumps, we don't control the content of the dumps. The issue is, in fact, nothing to do with us.
The origianl message was in two parts. The second part seems to be the contentious part. I tend to agree with you that the developers are unconcerned with human errors in the dumps (which has now been verified as a non-Bot non-MediaWiki issue which was unconfirmed before).
The first part of the message discusses a machine created thesaurus based upon these links which I will post as an XML dump when th program is completed. That part may be of interest moving forward as it would enable a built in thesaurus for MediaWiki. The wikitrans uses this thesaurus created from within the dumps. Could have a lot of applications for translators. I have found it very useful.
Jeff