[Pywikipedia-l] Removing wrong iw

info at gno.de info at gno.de
Tue Dec 27 16:46:44 UTC 2011


 
> 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...
> 

There is a method keeping bots away from putting a wrong iw to a single page by commenting out the wrong link like
<!-- [[de:Bad Link]] -->
But this does not prevent the bots from putting on others sites pages.

Regards
xqt




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