[Wikipedia-l] Interlanguage Links - The Interwiki-Link-Checker

[Neil Harris]

Marc Dangers wrote:
> It seems that a lot of people from different Wikipedias are reading this
> list, and my post is about internationalisation of Wikipedia, so I decided I
> will try to bring a certain tool to your attention. It’s the
> Interwiki-Link-Checker 
> (http://tools.wikimedia.de/~flacus/IWLC/start.php) by de:user:Flacus, a 
> brilliant tool which has facilitated the generation of >100.000 
> Interlanguage-Links within the last six month.
>
> As you might know, there are still lots of articles in one Wikipedia which
> have the same name as articles in aWikipedia of another language, but are
> *not* linked by an Interlanguage-Link (e.g. en-de: ~6300 articles, sv-fr:
> ~2300 articles and 
> nl-pl ~1400 articles, as of the dumps from February 2006).
>
> This articles have been listed for a lot of language combinations by 
> de:user:SirJective. But not all articles with identical names are about 
> the same subject, so human work is needed to decide whether an 
> Interwiki-Link can be automatically inserted by a bot. In order to make 
> this decision easy and comfortable, there is a brilliant tool called 
> Interwiki-Link-Checker written by de:Benutzer:Flacus.
>
> You might want to check the FAQ at
>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia_Interwiki-Link-Checker/en
>
> or just try it at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~flacus/IWLC/start.php
> Thanks for your time and (maybe even) help, I can just invite you to try 
> the tool, it's fun and you're reading (and editing) quite a lot of stuff 
> you wouldn't stumble upon otherwise.
>
> If you do like the tool and want to spread the word, visit
>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia_Interwiki-Link-Checker/Propaganda,
>
> help and new ideas are welcome.
>
> Cheers, de:Benutzer:Mdangers
>
>   
This is an absolutely wonderful tool, both in concept and in actual 
use.  Thanks for doing this!

-- Neil