Thought that the pasted discussion from WD is of interest and adds to our recent discussion on interwikis/interlanguage links.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_discourages_interwiki_links

Wikidata discourages interwiki links

Looking at Zhuangzi (Q1074987) Zhuanhgzi, I see that this data item is only for the work as it exists in Chinese. The work as translated into English is a separate data item, and the French Wikisource translation is another data item.

Effectively, this means that Wikidata discourages interwiki links to and between Wikisource projects, because they will never be part of the same data item. Further, anyone seeking a translation of a work into another language must first come to Wikidata and surf the links even to find out if translations of a work in another language exist on Wikisource; it is not possible to do that from any Wikisource directly.

I thought the whole point of moving the links to Wikidata was to promote connections between projects, not to eliminate them. But perhaps I am wrong. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:19, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: There are other ways to create interwiki by the help of Wikidata. See s:sv:Bibeln 1917 where I have made some tests with the Bible (Q1845). The interwiki is created by the help of a Lua-module that follows edition(s) (P747) and edition or translation of (P629). The big advantage is that it makes possible to create intewiki to more than one page in every project. For example, that page have 13 links to enwikisource. -- Innocent bystander (talk) 05:49, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

@Innocent bystander:

This is very interesting, what template (and Lua-module) do you use ? it should be done for all wikisources, that often have a lot of translated texts :) --Hsarrazin (talk) 09:43, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

@Hsarrazin: It's s:sv:Modul:Sandlåda/Innocent bystander who today is included in s:sv:Mall:Titel, a template that can be found in almost every page on svsource. Observe that the module is not secured against loops in the P747/P629-hierarcy. It also needs support by the "interwiki-extra"-class in s:sv:MediaWiki:Common.js, otherwise you cannot have more than one interwiki in each page. -- Innocent bystander (talk) 10:11, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

BTW, another thing the code does: It makes it possible to have interwiki to the Text-namespaces in als/bar/frr/pflwikis. -- Innocent bystander (talk) 10:18, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

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