[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis

[Mark Williamson]

Please read my original e-mail, where I said I'm not aware of
up-to-date information, but I remember participating in a vote at
en.wp where sorting by code won overwhelmingly.

Mark

2008/5/29 Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>:
> 2008/5/29 Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/5/28 Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>:
>>> I do think it's unacceptable that Interwiki bots go in and change the
>>> order of interwikis against the agreed-upon orders at each Wiki.
>>>
>>> I remember a while back, we agreed on en.wp to order interwiki links
>>> by code, and it seems that the bots never cared - ja: always came
>>> after nl: rather than after it:. I'm not sure if a different policy
>>> has been decided since then, but bots have always been oblivious, it
>>> seems.
>>
>> Maybe you should have *shock* told us? Long time ago en: decided to
>> use alphabetically by language name. So the bot programmers
>> implemented that. Since then, we haven't been told it has been decided
>> differently, so we haven't changed it. We have some nice code, but no
>> crystal balls. We use whatever order the local community prefers, but
>> we do need to be told what that preference is.
>
> I searched, and the information about interwiki sorting order that I found is:
>
> "The link tags should be sorted alphabetically based on the local
> names of the languages, as described at m:Interwiki sorting order. The
> vast majority of articles are currently sorted this way." -
> [[en:Help:Interlanguage links]].
>
> So if this rule has changed, then please change the information AS
> WELL AS notifying the bot programmers.
>
> --
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