[WikiEN-l] Serious problems with interlanguage links

[Eugene van der Pijll]

Lukasz Bolikowski schreef:
> A short introduction: let's say that two articles are connected if there
> is an interlanguage link from one to the other in at least one
> direction.  Next, let's say that if A-B and B-C are connected, then A-C
> are too.

Hold it right there. That assumes that every wikipedia divides its
content into pages in the same way. Since content policy is made at
the level of individual projects, this assumption is incorrect.

> With over 3'000'000 links to check,
> it has to be corrected semi-automatically.

It doesn't have to be corrected at all, since you've not actually
demonstrated that it is incorrect now.

Eugene

(who is a bit ticked off about this subject because of all the work he's
done to keep incorrect wikilinks off the [[Hoek]] dab page...)