Andre Engels wrote:
Examples of problems are:
* Closely connected subjects (for example, a biological order
and the only family in it, a municipality and its main town by
the same name, a fruit tree and its fruit, a computer game and
Such problems certainly exist. But they are not our worst problem
at the moment. Today I sorted out "Calvin Klein" (the company)
and "Calvin Klein (fashion designer)" (the person). They now form
two separate interwiki clusters, without conflicts. But sorting
this out was more hard work than it needs to be. With some
improved tools, we can make this work a little easier.
The Category:Politicians in many languages has an interwiki link
to the Armenian (hy:) category for political scientists. I fixed
the English Wikipedia (manually) and the North European languages
(by bot), but some 50 languages remain to be edited.
If interwiki.py supported SUL and if I had a truly global bot
flag, I could do it. But I'm reluctant to edit 50 languages
manually, especially since there are hundreds of such conflicts.
One problem here is that interwiki.py only adds links. Both
correct ones and errors are quickly propagated. But corrections
are not propagated, because the conflicts make it give up. An
easy way to remove that hy: interwiki link would be a great help.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se