User talk:Elfix

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Ultimateria 18:48, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Interwikis

See Help:Interwiki.You'll get bored of modifying these quicker than a dozen bots will, believe me. --Mglovesfun (talk) 10:02, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

The problem is that there's a typographic apostrophe (’) on a few articles from the French language Wiktionary, while the other languages have a plain apostrophe ('), and the bots don't seem to interlink pages that don't have the same name on the Wiktionary project. So, uh, I probably need to do those interwikis without their help. Elfix 11:52, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

But they link to redirects, this is not 'coincidental' but a deliberate strategy to link to such entries. So don't links to fr:don't which is a redirect, but so what? It redirect to the correct page. FWIW (essentially, nothing) I opposed the French change to the right single quotation mark from the apostrophe, which is what caused the problem in the first place. --Mglovesfun (talk) 12:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Well, apparently the bots won't add interwiki links to redirects, will they? For example, rendre l'âme has also a page on dewikt, which had no interwiki link to enwikt while fr:rendre l’âme did... So, I hope you understand why I get to be a bit confused. Elfix 12:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)