[Foundation-l] Belarusan Wikipedia

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 11:05:51 UTC 2007


2007/3/31, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>
> Tomasz Ganicz schreef:
> > I am wondereing what has happened with all interwiki links which were
> > pointing to the old version. As the old version was two times larger
> > than the new one many interwiki points to the non-existing pages. Even
> > the still existing ones sometimes point to nowhere as the old spelling
> > of them is slightly different the new one. What is the interwiki code
> > for old version?
>
> The pywikipedia bot has a program that allows you to change strings ..
> so you can replace "[[be:" with "[[be-x-old".


That won't do, because the MediaWiki software does not recognize be-x-old:
as a language code. Thus [[be-x-old:Test]] will be a red link to
[[be-x-old:Test]] on your own Wikipedia, not an interwiki link to be-x-old.


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