On 11/27/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Brian wrote:
Would it be possible to write a bot which simply goes through all the pages, following all the interwiki links that currently exist and placing them where they don't exist? This seems like it would be very easy for someone to write, easy to implement, and very effective.
Don't the pywikipediabot folks already do this?
Yes, and you can supervise it .. which is somewhat important because the mappings are not 1:1 because of different styles of breaking ideas into articles, so you can end up through multiple layers of interwiki on a page which isn't quite what you thought it was...