On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote:
> So far as I can tell, these links are used by humans to denote
> synonimity. Using bots to assert synonimity based on transitivity
> might probabilistically work for at most a few hops. Beyond that, the
> bots will get it wrong too often to be much use; they just don't know
> what's going on well enough.

I wholeheartedly agree.

IMO, this is another instance where the human usability of something
on Wikipedia is being damaged by the drive to make something more
compatible with bots.

-Matt

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