[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Feature Requests-1912001 ] Add a new option to interwiki.py

Tue Feb 24 05:49:10 UTC 2009

Feature Requests item #1912001, was opened at 2008-03-11 17:29
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Category: interwiki
Group: None
>Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Marc-Etienne Vargenau (vargenau)
Assigned to: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Summary: Add a new option to interwiki.py

Initial Comment:
Hello,

When working on years or birth categories for instance, I give a huge number of hints.

And I now these hint are right (when they exist).

If there is a wrong link somewhere (e.g. en:category:2000_deaths linking to fr:category:naissance_en_2000), I get a huge number of questions to which I always answer "1" (because the hint is proposed first).

So I propose to create a new option "-hintisright" (or something).

In that case, if there is a conflict between a hint and other page(s), the hint is selected automatically.

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>Comment By: Marc-Etienne Vargenau (vargenau)
Date: 2009-02-24 06:49

Message:
Hello,

Thank you for your interest in my proposal.

I have done some testing.

Your option does not do what I expected.

Here is a real-world example. I want to update the interwikis for year
15.
So I do something like:
python interwiki.py -lang:pt -noredirect 15 \
-hint:aa,ab,af,an,ang,ar,arc,arz,ast,av,ay,az,ba,bat-smg,bcl,be,be-x-old,bg,br,bs,bug,bxr,ca,cbk-zam,ceb,chr,co,cr,crh,cs,csb,cv,cy
\
-hint:da,de,diq,dsb,dv,ee,el,en,eo,es,et,eu,ext,fi,fiu-vro,fo,fr,frp,fur,fy,ga,gd,gl,glk,gn,got,gu,gv,haw,he,hi,hif,hsb,hu,hy
\
-hint:ia,id,ie,ig,ilo,io,is,it,iu,jv,ka,kab,kg,kk,ks,ku,kw,ky,la,lb,li,lij,lmo,ln,lo,lv,map-bms,mdf,mg,mi,mk,ml,mn,ms,mt,mzn
\
-hint:na,nah,nap,nds,nds-nl,nl,nn,no,nov,nrm,nv,ny,oc,om,os,pa,pag,pam,pap,pdc,pih,pl,pms,pt,qu,rm,rmy,ro,roa-rup
\
-hint:sa,sc,scn,sco,sd,se,sg,sh,si,simple,sk,sl,sm,so,sq,sr,ss,stq,su,sv,sw,szl,ta,te,tet,tg,tk,tl,tpi,tr,tt,ty,uk,uz
\
-hint:vec,vi,vls,vo,wa,war,yi,yo,zea,zu

(plus some other hints I did not include for simplicity).

The page ty:15 contains wrong interwiki rights, they point to year 14.

So I am asked to answer I huge number of questions, e.g. between no:14 and
no:15

With the new option, I expected that the link no:14 is ignored since no:15
was provided as a hint and it exists.

Is that more clear?

Best regards,

Marc-Etienne

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Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Date: 2009-02-12 13:50

Message:
I gave it a try with -hintsareright

If used, and a hint to an existing page is given, any interlanguage links
to the site of that hint are ignored, and a note "extra interwiki on hinted
site ignored" with the appropriate names is output to the console.
Hints can be given on the command line, in a file, etc. and interactively.
Before interactive hints are knows, i.e. concerning links in the starting
page, -hintsareright has no effect.

It also does not work on hints to sites where there are no pages found. If
you need that, it is an extra feature which, I believe, is a bit more
complicated to implement.

Not using -hintsareright should not make a difference to what we had
before, so I just submitted the change to svn as r 6341 for you to try it
out. Let me know if it fits your needs.
If so, this bug can be closed.

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Comment By: Marc-Etienne Vargenau (vargenau)
Date: 2009-02-03 14:36

Message:
Hello,

Thank you for your comment.
But I do not think the -localright parameter does what I need.
I do not want to modify the local page because I do not want to add links
that do not exist (yet).
I am 100% sure the hint "fr:category:décès_en_2000" (for
"en:category:2000_deaths") is right if it exists, but it might not exist
yet.

Since the code for -localright exists, maybe the code for -hintisright can
be easily implemented.

Best regards,

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Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Date: 2009-01-23 18:34

Message:
Hint: You can also solve the problem by inserting all the hints in the
starting page, and use the -localright parameter. If you are uncertain that
you got all, use -confirm and you will be able to interrupt the bot when it
comes accross a missing link which it tries to delete.

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