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.
For example, if an article on EN links to an article on ES, but that one links to an article on DE, then the bot will go back through and add es/de to en, en/de to es, and es/en to de, etc.
This would eliminate a lot of the problems encountered by the Interwiki Link Checker, for example, which can't deal with comparing English and Chinese (provided that at least one page somewhere in the chain links to the Chinese version).
Of course, it isn't a complete solution, but it seems like it would be a very effective one. For any chains where there are discrepancies (en -> de -> a different en), it can just not bother with that chain.
brian0918
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?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com
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...
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