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** [patches:#454] cosmetic_changes.py to remove bad wikilinks**
**Status:** closed-rejected
**Created:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 09:38 AM UTC by BalaSundaraRaman L
**Last Updated:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 09:38 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
Translated articles created using http://translate.google.com/toolkit?hl=en
suffer from one complex issue. It creates links to impossible pages in the
target wiki. Let's take the example below:
\( Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate\_governance \)
A related but separate thread of discussions focuses on the impact of a
corporate governance system in \[\[economic efficiency\]\], with a strong
emphasis on shareholders' welfare.
This when translated to Tamil, for example, will have a single word for "in
economic efficiency" and the tool wrongly links to that phrase. Since article
title can't be of the form "in economic efficiency", it'll remain a red link
forever. Since articles are littered with such red links, it's hard to read.
In view of the large-scale
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Google\_translation project
and the problems we faced \(
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/A\_Review\_of\_Google\_Translation\_project\_in\_Tamil\_Wikipedia:\_Role\_of\_voluntarism,\_free\_and\_organically\_evolved\_community\_in\_ensuring\_quality\_of\_Wikipedia
\), I've developed a patch for cosmetic\_changes.py which'll remove red links
of the form \[\[some phrase\]\] leaving out cases where the label is different
from the target. I've attached the patch as well. The changes by my bot running
the modified code is at
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SundarBot
If approved, I can give it to a dedicated bot operator with the translation
team.
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