The sitelinks are not used directly, they are aggregated by using the work item as a central hub. Basically the algorithm is:
1.- query all edition-items that are connected to the same work-item using "edition of"
2.- make a list of all the sitelinks used on each one of these edition-items (1 sitelink per edition-item)
3.- for each wikisource page connected to an edition-item, display the list generated on point 2

Micru


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually the problem isn't that you can only have one link from a wikisource work from a wikidata item. We have separate wikidata items for each edition of a work (because these have different metadata) so multiple editions of the same work on a wikisource link to different wikidata items. 
This creates a different problem. Each language edition of a work is a different edition so it links to a different wikidata item which has sitelinks only to that translation of the work. This means you can't use sitelinks to link to translations of a work on other wikisources. 

Does this mean wikidata sitelinks are useless for wikisource?


filceolaire

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