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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Maurits (talk | contribs) at 00:06, 17 July 2009 (re). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Please visit my Dutch talk page for comments and questions.

Unusual bot edit at Help:Parser function

Hello Maurits. I undid this bot edit, which was mysterious. It removed a mention of wikEd from the sentence while leaving the rest of the line in place. This is likely to be a problem in the bot code, or possibly a limitation that makes it unwise to run the code on this type of page. This bot edit was done on 18 May, and I notice there was some discussion on your Talk previously about problems that may occur when the bot runs in spaces other than main. This edit was in the 'Help' space.

I suggest that you may want to investigate this unusual edit, since previous discussion on your talk seems not to have addressed this kind of problem. EdJohnston (talk) 22:21, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ed, thank you for your message. Because the link is preceded by [[en: instead of [[:en: (note the ":"), the bot recognizes it as an interwiki link to the same language and therefore removes it. It isn't a matter of namespace, the pywikipedia-bot does the same in any other namespace. I guess that in some cases this type of edits is justified, but evidently in some not. As the wiki-software doesn't interpret it as an interwiki-link, I think that the bot should neither do so. Therefore, I requested the developers of the pywikipedia framework to fix this (see [1]). Kind regards, --Maurits (talk) 00:06, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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