On 2006-03-19 16:08:01 +1100, Peter Flodin wrote:
> With the growing number of language wikis (Swedish was just silently
> launched http://sv.opensuse.org) the issue of keeping interwiki links
> up to date will become an issue.
>
> Jdd's IW template helps a bit, but it has the problem that it adds a
> link to all languages if the translated page exists or not. There
> should never be an interwiki link to a nonexistent page.
>
> As discussed briefly here before, the way the wikipedia copes with
> this is to use a python script. It is a well established opensource
> project http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywikipediabot/
>
> The opensuse.org wiki is using non-standard authentication, with
> diverts and https.
>
> I was hacking at the script about a month ago, and made some progress
> but didn't solve it.
>
> I thought I would have another go, but thought I would raise the
> subject in case somebody else has been thinking the same thing. (I am
> definetly not a Python expert).
>
> My idea is that we would submit our changes to the sourcforge project
> so that we don't have to maintain our own fork of the script going
> forward.
>
> I will update the existing page http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bots
> with details and progress.
i would be interested how the bot should solve this problem.
jfyi: we have an internal ruby script that works with iChain.
we used it for the SDB migration (did you really expect we uploaded
2000pages manually?;)
anyway ... i wouldnt publish much about the authentication procedure. i
know about mediawikis where they use the wikibots for spam.
atm it gives us a slight advantage over others.
darix
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