On 11/27/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)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...