On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
So far as I can tell, these links are used by humans to denote synonimity. Using bots to assert synonimity based on transitivity might probabilistically work for at most a few hops. Beyond that, the bots will get it wrong too often to be much use; they just don't know what's going on well enough.
I wholeheartedly agree.
IMO, this is another instance where the human usability of something on Wikipedia is being damaged by the drive to make something more compatible with bots.
-Matt