[Pywikipedia-l] Removing wrong iw

[Dr. Trigon]

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Please correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I can see, that kind
of interwiki bot issues appear from time to time. (but I am not an
interwiki bot expert)

What about creating e.g. an wiki page containing a blacklist for pages
that the interwiki bots HAVE TO IGNORE. By using the latest changes irc
channel all running interwiki bots can keep track of this blacklist.
That way a interwiki bot "super-user" could blacklist all wiki pages
that should now have their interwiki links updated at any given moment.

What do you think? Is this that kind of solutions that is considered
to be NOT an "easy way to resolve this"? What would be the problems
implementing that?

Greetings and Happy Holidays!
DrTrigon


On 26.12.2011 10:31, Andre Engels wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Bináris <wikiposta at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Sorry, I am  afraid, there is a misunderstanding. I never run 
>> onterwiki as a bot owner, there is no point in being the 1001st 
>> to do so, if I can do unique bot tasks with more benefit. :-)
>> 
>> I ask this as a user. If one wrong iw gets into 25 good on a 
>> page, shall I manually remove it from all the 25 wikis, or is 
>> there a simplier way to tell the bots that Ferenc Farkas, a very 
>> remarkable esperantist, who has a 2 lines substub in eowiki, is 
>> not identical to Ferenc Farkas componist?
> 
> You do indeed need to change it from all those wikis. It is 
> typically something that a bot does well, so the best thing to do 
> (if there are more than a handful of languages involved) is 
> probably to contact a bot owner and let them do it. I have taken 
> this message as such a request, and resolved the Ferenc Farkas 
> issue.
> 
> However, whether done by bot or manually, there is still the 
> problem that there might be a bot that sees some of the languages 
> before, and others after the change; such a bot would consider the 
> interwiki a 'missing' one on the languages coming afterward, and 
> re-add it. I don't know of an easy way to resolve this, the only 
> thing I can think of is adding an article on the composer on eo:, 
> or on the esperantist on one of the other languages. Or keep an
> eye at the articles, and keep changing until we get lucky...
> 
> 
> 

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