[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Feature Requests-1877143 ] make interwiki.py accept a hint at namespace warning

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Feature Requests item #1877143, was opened at 2008-01-22 10:31
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>Category: interwiki
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
>Assigned to: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Summary: make interwiki.py accept a hint at namespace warning

Initial Comment:
WARNING: [[ksh:Metmaacher:Purbo T]] is in namespace 2, but [[dsb:Benutzer:Purbo T]] is in namespace 0. Follow it anyway? ([y]es, [n]o) n

should better be:

WARNING: [[ksh:Metmaacher:Purbo T]] is in namespace 2, but [[dsb:Benutzer:Purbo T]] is in namespace 0. Follow it anyway? ([y]es, [n]o, [a]dd replacement) n

Reason of the warning is an update of the language-file in the dsb wiki, which alters Benutzer -> Wužywar
(away from the German fallback) 

Thus many previously set intwerwiki links need a namespace change. While this could be dealt with using a general search/replace, interwiki.py should not loose the interwiki links while it is operating before all links were adjusted. A manual replacement (hint) would be the ideal solution here.

If possible, it would be nice to have a typein "user:" automatically expanded to "User:Purbo T" in such cases, but that is rather a gimmick.

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>Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Date: 2009-02-20 03:22

Message:
Done with Revision 6381 

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Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Date: 2008-02-29 13:49

Message:
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user_id=46450
Originator: YES

See also these two edits:

http://mi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:M%C4%81tauranga_huaota&diff=prev&oldid=45261

http://mi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category%3AM%C4%81tauranga_huaota&diff=45262&oldid=45261

This gives another motivation, or justification, for the suggested
feature.

With the feature added: When seeing a possible solution, you could enter
that solution immediately, saving time, server load and, more often than
not, another bot run.

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