On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:56:51 -0500, Stephen Forrest
<stephen.forrest(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've seen essentially two problems as is:
- links to new translations don't get added everywherewikipedia
- erroneous cross-language links can persist even after being
corrected somewhere
Robots can solve the first problem but not the second. An example of
the second is 'Germanic languages'. There are not too many wikipedias
that have any entry for this topic specifically. However, someone had
linked a number of them to the equivalent for 'German language' in
other wikipedias, probably not realizing the difference.
I don't see how a robot could solve this problem without semantic
knowledge of the equivalents of 'Germanic language' in various
languages.
As a bot writer and operator, I can say that bots _could_ help in
finding this kind of cases. We might go work more on it (the bot
notices it if it can get to two pages on the same language - in this
case "Germanic languages" and "German language"). There's quite a
number of such problems; a common cause is that when a page turns into
a disambiguation page on some Wikipedia, the interwiki links to it are
usually not changed.
Andre Engels