Proposal:Spider popular project page interwikis
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Summary
Check interwikis to other language versions on important project pages.
Proposal
Make sure that correct interwikis to and from the Village Pumps, the Help Desks, the Reference Desk, everything else on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questions and the project pages which appear on http://stats.grok.se/en/top (listed below) exist and return good pages with correct titles.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Searching
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
Motivation
Someone on IRC said that this particular set of interwikis is in bad shape.
Key Questions
For those that don't exist or return bad page status values when accessed, or which have no page title, can those issues be fixed with a bot?
Potential Costs
Don't ask me, ask http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bot_requests
References
- m:interwiki.py
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Proposal:Spider_popular_project_page_interwikis
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