On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Arwel Parry wrote:
Having started to put links between articles in
different language
wikis, I wonder if it would be possible to create a process (a bot?) to
occasionally search through all the interlanguage links to make sure
that there is a reverse link back to the original wiki e.g.
If we have [[cy:Yr_Ariannin]] linking to [[en:Argentina]]
[[es:Argentina]] [[pt:Argentina]] [[pl:Argentyna]] and so on, the
process would check if there's a link in each of those wikis back to
[[cy:Yr_Ariannin]] and if not, automatically create a link. I think it
would help to tie the different wikis together into one overall
Wikipedia.
Anyone think this is a reasonable idea, or how to do it?
On nl: Erik Zachte is already running such a script (semi-automatically,
because not rarely there is an error in these links). He seems to have
decided against changing the links on the other languages too because
some of them are quite strongly against bots.
Andre Engels