Hi! See http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VolkovBot/conflicts for list of conflicts. VolkovBot is pretty active, so list should be more or less comprehensive.
Eugene. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just recently started to play with interwiki.py (Pywikipedia bot > framework) for propagating interwiki links. My interest comes > from organizing the category tree, so I'm focusing on interwiki > links between categories. Interwiki bots normally run in > autonomous mode, but this means they give up on complicated cases. > > If I run this script under manual supervision, without the > "-autonomous" option, it stops and asks me how to resolve each > conflict. This happens ever so often. I have now (manually) > sorted out the interwiki links between all languages of > Category:Knowledge, which was intertwined with Category:Science, > and Category:Austrian writers which was mixed up with > Category:Austrian literature. Such mistakes easily happen, of > course. Who can spot errors in all these languages? > > Many languages had interwiki links from their category for > Austrian writers to the Japanese category for Austrian literature. > I'm not sure exactly when or where this error originated. But on > June 19, 2007, the English and Spanish Wikipedia's interwiki link > to Japanese changed from Austrian novelists to Austrian > literature, i.e. from one error to another. Ten days later, this > link was copied to the Dutch Wikipedia. The error was corrected on > en.wikipedia on October 1, 2007, but remained on other languages. > Yes, that's 15 months ago. > > The circular interwiki link structure from en:Category:Austrian > writers to es:CategorÃa:Escritores de Austria to ja:... and back > to en:Category:Austrian literature is such a conflict that makes > interwiki.py give up when it runs in autonomous mode. > > Thus, corrections (as on October 1) do not propagate. Instead a > report about the conflict is given in a logfile, but apparently > nobody had fixed this problem in the last 15 monhts. This > conflict also blocked new interwiki links from propagating. > > After I cleared up the mess, 21 new interwiki links were added to > the category on the Russian Wikipedia (one where I have a bot > flag). That means 21 languages of Wikipedia had created > categories (or announced them to the interwiki system) for > Austrian writers in the last 15 months, and they all added their > interwiki link to the English Wikipedia. But these additions did > not propagate because of the conflict. > > So, my question: > > Has anybody mapped exactly how many such interwiki conflicts we > have? Or how many interwiki sets do we have without conflicts? > Could/should someone make a list of current conflicts and try to > rank them by importance, so we can get started in fixing them? > > In the longer term, we need to redesign the interwiki links into a > centralized system, that can be maintained. I think the way to do > this is to use Wikimedia Commons. Instead of copying all the > interwiki links to every language of Wikipedia, it should be > enough to add {{commons|Category:Writers from Austria}}, and the > rest should happen automatically. > > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
