By Shane | Posted on November 29, 2007 at 5:30 pm |
Posted in Category:
Maintenance, Mediawiki
Today after fixing the bots, I ran the interwiki bot and wanted to see how well each wiki has been adding links. Some wikis I was just getting fusterated with, but here is the score in “school grade”.
- de: B-
- Links are added, then forgotten. Redirects from EN help, but they hurt other wikis when the bot checks
- zh: D+
- Found interwiki links in templates after the </noinclude> tags.
- es: F
- Need serious development
- tr: F
- Ditto.
- ft: F
- Ditto.
So with that said you know what to do. Check all interwiki links when you visit a page and make sure they are correct, working, and make sense. (i.e. Miniseries should not link to Season 1)
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Well, the problem is this is more bot related than human related, it seems.
Not really. The bot seees that for instance the French page for Season 1 links to the English Miniseries, Night 1 and to the German Season 1, so it adds the missing link (en:Miniseries -> de:Season1). Someone (a human) must have entered a wrong Miniseries->Season 1 interwiki link somewhere
With the articles linking to EN redirects, from the DE wiki, the bot when running the DE wiki can figure out the redirect ntoice but if it’s coming from FR to DE and DE has the redirect link, it causes the EN wiki to loose it’s link because the bot then changes the DE back to the redirect because that’s what the FR wiki does. Kinda confusing but it’s bad.