"Steve Bennett" stevage@gmail.com wrote in message news:f1c3529e0603200617x7c05c5f2n9671e14bfa4c753a@mail.gmail.com...
On 3/20/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
I spent last night interwiki-ing Norwegian and Catalan, of all things...
I haven't tried this tool, but is it smart enough to know that if en.foo links to fr.foo, and fr.foo links to ca.foo, then en.foo should link to ca.foo? Otherwise this problem seems like a massive amount of manual intervention...
That's a later stage of the process.
This particular tool is to allow human intervention to ensure that [[en:foo]] and [[fr:foo]] are actually about the same "foo", and similarly for [[ca:foo]].
I'm doing the "de-en" set at the moment, and there are quite a few cases where the two articles, despite having the same name, are radically different.
The usual reason is that there are a good many things called "foo", all of which probably appear on [[foo (disambiguation)]] or the equivalent. However, different languages have their own ideas about which of those many instances of "foo" should get the main article of that name.
HTH HAND