Pmsyyz

Bot problems

Indeed. This bot should transfer text on American cities and villages from the English Wikipedia into the Volapük Wikipedia with a standard translation (the geography and demographics sections of so many counties follow a standard format, which can be translated once into Volapük and then used as a template for each new city). Unfortunately, the standard format is true only for about 90% of the cities; the others have been changed and edited by people who decided to change this standard format, or then are very small stubs that don't have much structure. So in about 10% of the cases the bot fails and does strange things, like bringing in English text. I have to correct these cases manually one by one. I've already done it to quite a few, and I keep searching for more. I've already corrected the one you mentioned; should you come upon others of this kind, please let me know so that I can fix them. --Smeira 06:04, 5 yulul 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you can get the source data that the original bot used on the English Wikipedia and use that instead of the existing articles. Or just have your bot use the original English Wikipedia article if it matches the bot created format. You would missing out on later additions, but at least the articles would be valid. --Pmsyyz 07:14, 5 yulul 2007 (UTC)