Today another bot (semi-automated or automated) program is now running on all the wiki. What it does it check the English Wiki, as it has most of the data, looks at the interwiki links and makes sure the other language “article” has a link back to the parent. It would also place any other language that it finds to the article. This bot has the sysop flag to allow updating of protected pages.

Check out the userpage on the English, for complete understanding on how this works. This bot is considered a “maintenance” bot so it will run every month (automatically) and can be run manually if a lot of interwiki links get created.

For your pages to get “caught” by the bot, you must place the interwiki on the English wiki…for now. Please check up the updated Standards and Conventions that deal with this matter.

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