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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/793/ Reported by: eugo Created on: 2008-09-14 09:46:06 Subject: [[Special:Export]] not retrieving zh-traditional titles Original description: Pywikipedia \[http\] trunk/pywikipedia \(r5894, Sep 13 2008, 17:27:38\) Python 2.4.4 \(\#2, Apr 15 2008, 23:43:20\) \[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 \(prerelease\) \(Debian 4.1.1-21\)\] Hello, my bot checked ru:Домашних духов обманув, душа Цянь-нюй расстаётся с телом on ru-WP for interwiki links and found an invalid link to zh-WP and removed it. But this link is valid as you can see. Why does this happen? Best regards, Euku \----- python interwiki.py "-start:%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%85\_%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2\_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%B2,\_%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B0\_%D0%A6%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%8C-%D0%BD%D1%8E%D0%B9\_%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%91%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F\_%D1%81\_%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC" "-number:1" -lang:ru Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the current process. NOTE: Number of pages queued is 0, trying to add 60 more. Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:ru... Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:zh... NOTE: \[\[zh:????\]\] does not exist ======Post-processing \[\[ru:Domashnikh dukhov obmanuv, dusha Cyan'-nyuj rasstaëtsya s telom\]\]====== Updating links on page \[\[ru:Domashnikh dukhov obmanuv, dusha Cyan'-nyuj rasstaëtsya s telom\]\]. Changes to be made: udalil: \[\[zh:????\]\] \- \[\[zh:????\]\] ERROR: Found incorrect link to zh in \[\[ru:Domashnikh dukhov obmanuv, dusha Cyan'-nyuj rasstaëtsya s telom\]\] Submit? \(\[y\]es, \[n\]o, \[g\]ive up\)
It has to do with the zh-traditional/zh-simplified distinction. In normal MediaWiki usage, both the simplified and the traditional orthography of Chinese work, but the bot uses \[\[Special:Export\]\], which only works for simplified Chinese. If you change the link from \[\[zh:倩女离魂\]\] to \[\[zh:倩女離魂\]\], you still go to the same page, but the link will work for the bot as well.
Thanks. But there should be a general solution for this. Is it a MediaWiki bug or should the bot know about all distinctions made on WP-Projects?
better title.
- **summary**: "[[zh:????]] does not exist" but is does! --> [[Special:Export]] not retrieving zh-traditional titles
The same happens with kyrillic letters on sr-wiki \(\#2484627\)
- **priority**: 5 --> 6
