Having started to put links between articles in different language wikis, I wonder if it would be possible to create a process (a bot?) to occasionally search through all the interlanguage links to make sure that there is a reverse link back to the original wiki e.g.
If we have [[cy:Yr_Ariannin]] linking to [[en:Argentina]] [[es:Argentina]] [[pt:Argentina]] [[pl:Argentyna]] and so on, the process would check if there's a link in each of those wikis back to [[cy:Yr_Ariannin]] and if not, automatically create a link. I think it would help to tie the different wikis together into one overall Wikipedia.
Anyone think this is a reasonable idea, or how to do it?
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Arwel Parry wrote:
Having started to put links between articles in different language wikis, I wonder if it would be possible to create a process (a bot?) to occasionally search through all the interlanguage links to make sure that there is a reverse link back to the original wiki e.g.
If we have [[cy:Yr_Ariannin]] linking to [[en:Argentina]] [[es:Argentina]] [[pt:Argentina]] [[pl:Argentyna]] and so on, the process would check if there's a link in each of those wikis back to [[cy:Yr_Ariannin]] and if not, automatically create a link. I think it would help to tie the different wikis together into one overall Wikipedia.
Anyone think this is a reasonable idea, or how to do it?
On nl: Erik Zachte is already running such a script (semi-automatically, because not rarely there is an error in these links). He seems to have decided against changing the links on the other languages too because some of them are quite strongly against bots.
Andre Engels
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