On 01/04/07, Jeffrey V. Merkey
<jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
I try to not post to the English Wikipedia or its
mailing lists. The
problem was reported on Foundation-l with a courtesty notice to
the developers who control the dumps of the problem.
We control the dumps, we don't control the content of the dumps. The
issue is, in fact, nothing to do with us.
The origianl message was in two parts. The second part seems to be the
contentious part.
I tend to agree with you that the developers are unconcerned with human
errors in the dumps
(which has now been verified as a non-Bot non-MediaWiki issue which was
unconfirmed before).
The first part of the message discusses a machine created thesaurus
based upon these links which I will post as an XML
dump when th program is completed. That part may be of interest moving
forward as it would enable a built in
thesaurus for MediaWiki. The wikitrans uses this thesaurus created from
within the dumps. Could have a lot
of applications for translators. I have found it very useful.
Jeff