2008/5/29 Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com:
The current language order in the bot was done that way because we were told to do so by the English Wikipedia. I'd happily change it, but THE DECISION IS UP TO THE ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA, NOT TO YOU.
The answer is surely to include interwiki-link ordering as a parameter that can be set for each wiki. That way, whatever order they're in at the end of the article, they show up in the correct order in the rendered page.
The bug is: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2867
Surely someone can get that patch into acceptable shape for the MediaWiki code?
(unless there's some problem with it that isn't clear from the bug - cc to wikitech-l)
- d.
On 29.05.2008, 17:38 David wrote:
2008/5/29 Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com:
The current language order in the bot was done that way because we were told to do so by the English Wikipedia. I'd happily change it, but THE DECISION IS UP TO THE ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA, NOT TO YOU.
The answer is surely to include interwiki-link ordering as a parameter that can be set for each wiki. That way, whatever order they're in at the end of the article, they show up in the correct order in the rendered page.
The bug is: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2867
Surely someone can get that patch into acceptable shape for the MediaWiki code?
(unless there's some problem with it that isn't clear from the bug - cc to wikitech-l)
- d.
Both major bot frameworks that may change the sort order of interwikis, pywikipedia and AWB, have a highly customizable sorter that follows http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_sort_order . If a wiki is handled improperly, people should file a request to http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93107 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AWB/B respectively instead of whinning about Teh Evil English Cabal.
Thanks for the link to our sourceforge Max.
Unless this feature is added to mediawiki core, yes - I'm speaking for pywikipedia here - report us any bug in the interwiki sorting, and I (we) will be happy to fix that for pywikipedia.
We do agree that there are local policies to respect on each projects, and trust me, we try to work to comply with these rules. Sometimes we are mistaken (today several complaints about the interwiki sorting of sk: got raised, this should be fixed by now) but really, we are trying to help the community, not to enforce some foreign wiki rules in another.
2008/5/29 Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com:
Both major bot frameworks that may change the sort order of interwikis, pywikipedia and AWB, have a highly customizable sorter that follows http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_sort_order . If a wiki is handled improperly, people should file a request to http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93107 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AWB/B respectively instead of whinning about Teh Evil English Cabal.
-- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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