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Proposal:Spider popular project page interwikis

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  1. Achieve continued growth in readership
  2. Focus on quality content
  3. Increase Participation
  4. Stabilize and improve the infrastructure
  5. Encourage Innovation


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.

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

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