A user at French Wikipedia reports:
When on an article about a strange animal whose name I forgot, the only link proposed is the strange name of the animal on the first word of the introduction, I think there should be a rule to add so as not to reason in a loop.
However:
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | MMiller_WMF | T252822 [EPIC] Growth: "add a link" structured task 1.0 | |||
| Resolved | MMiller_WMF | T253278 Add a link: link recommendation algorithm | |||
| Invalid | None | T287032 Add a link: algorithm suggests to link to the article itself |
@Trizek-WMF Thanks for flagging.
In prinicple, this should not happen. One of the hard-coded rules of the algorithm is to not recommend links to the article itself (either the link or anything on an anchor made up from the article-title). Therefore, I would be curious to learn more about the example to see where this might fail.
Added note: redirects should not be an issue since the algorithm is resolving all redirects when training the model and also when processing the links on a page (maybe there is an offset between the dumps used for training and the current article).
I was pretty sure it was one of the first rules. The you for confirming. ;)
I'm afraid it is not possible, since the user don't remember which article he edited.
Given the facts that:
We can close this task as Invalid. Could be reopened if neeeded.