User talk:Structor

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 01:39, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Interwiki-linking

Hello, I notice that you are using AWB to create interwiki links for categories. Unfortunately, some of these do not exist on the other wikis. for example. Although I think it's great to add interwiki links and I have a python bot that does just that, and although any additional links are helpful to my bot as well so that it can find the links; please don't create interwiki links unless you have a way to verify that the corresponding page actually exists.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 12:41, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

I keep this in mind. I just fill homogeneous series of categories by the names which should be (by convention in our wikisource, at least). So it will be easy by actual interwiki-bot (for example, with the aid of pywikipedia) to sort out non-existent ones. But there's a definite probability that categories with those names will be created somewhen. Infovarius (talk) 13:25, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

The problem is that if they don't exist they may never exist and the other wikis don't want to create empty cats. If you and I were to each run our bots several times in succession you would create links and I would remove them over and over again and in some cases that would be the full extent of our edits to a page. In ca.ws there are a lot of missing years and I asked and they don't want them created. So my bot will want to remove them and I have a hard time justifying not removing them as I don't think we have a reason to keep interwiki links to nowhere.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 14:31, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

• You are also adding the wrong category for es. See my change here for the correct category: dif. I'm not so sure about the "somewhen" theory either, there may be no works in existence that were published in Catalan or Vietnamese in 1773, for example.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 13:34, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

  Ok. But about es-category I'm curious: why P, not D? In other words: why are you in en-source not discriminating documents by year from fiction by year? Infovarius (talk) 16:09, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

  Good point, many of the D's do not exist, for example the one I mentioned above has no D, I will check on the scope of D and see what is best. I've stopped my run because of this issue. Though I don't generally think it's a good idea to have a category and it's subcategory link to the same place, though to link both P & D where both exist might be sensible. I don't think I removed any of those, if there were any.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 20:32, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

  And almost the same topic: I think that this is incorrect. Infovarius (talk) 16:39, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

  Yup, I thought I had those right but that's an obvious error. Maybe we could work together to sort some of these out as your bot probably has more flexibility than mine to change existing links across a single language, unless I write a new python script. I thought I was getting Historical Documents to link to Documents and History to link to History, but the overlap on some wikis is problematic as the pywikipediabot script looks for reciprocal links and when it sees the equivalent of la:Hisorical Document -> en:History and ru:Historical Document to en:Historical Document but ru:History -> en:History it asks which is right, the answer that "they all are" isn't easy to give, especially on the fly working in 12 different languages or more. I'll go in an manually fix that edit and run again and see if it sorts out.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 20:32, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Please note Wikisource:Bots

Please review Wikisource:Bots for editing rates for bots at enWS. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:56, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Categories for chapters

Running a bot requires familiarity with Wikisource norms and procedures. Tagging more than 50 pages with a dubious category that serves no purpose beyond what a table of contents would show seems to be misuse of a bot. I have proposed the category for deletion. I recommend identifying the tasks you intend to use this bot for, and making that information public. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:54, 13 June 2017 (UTC)