One thing could be looking for an article in one language but either not
knowing the correct phrase or exact spelling but knowing enough to use
related categories to find the article on a different language project. And
go from there
On Sunday, September 22, 2013, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
Again this does not answer the question why it makes sense to have
interwiki links for categories in Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 September 2013 23:56, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In the past I was asked do certain statistics
based on categories for
wikinews. Having interwikis was rather key for that.
-bawolff
On 2013-09-22 5:26 PM, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
What is the problem with people NOT considering interwiki links to
categories as being relevant.. They are not the only ones.
In a similar way I have asked several times what the point is of
interwiki
links for disambiguation pages.. The only answer
I got was along the
lines
> of "because we can". Similarly I do not understand the point of
interwiki
> links to categories. What is achieved by it
?
>
> So technically you may do or have done a good job. When people
appreciate
> it, good for you. But I fail to see the
point.
>
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> On 22 September 2013 21:54, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
> Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of
categories
> > but It's not very common that people consider adding interwiki of
> > categories (they think interwiki is just for articles) so we have
tons
of
> tons (before writing my engine that was 30K
out of 170K) categories
without
> any interwikis which is really bad. I wrote
some codes to make it
better
> but It wasn't enough So I wrote an
engine that gets two database:
1-list of
> categories without interwiki 2-list of
categories with interwiki to a
> certain language (e.g. English) with the target interwiki and after
that my
> bot analyzes and "guess" what is
the correct interwiki of category
based on
> > patterns of naming them in the second database
> > and bot reports. After running this code on fa.wp there was a very
huge
> > report [1] and we started to sort
things out (merging duplicates [2],
> > deleting extra ones, adding the correct iw) and now it's less than
25K
> > categories without interwikis (and
It's becoming less and less) we
did
the
> same on templates namespace [3] and we
interwikified more than 10K
> templates after that.
>
> And because this engine doesn't use any language-related analyses It
can
be
> > ran in any language and get interwiki from any language (we planned
to
run
> > this on Persian Wikipedia again but this time we use Dutch and German
> > languages as repo of interwiki)
> >
> > So here is my question: Is there similar situation in your wiki? Do
you
> want
to run this code in your wiki too? Do you have any suggestion?
> [1]:
https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=کاربر:Ladsgroup/
> ردهها&oldid=10959457
> [2]: One of the benefits of running this engine is we can find
duplicates
> [3]:
>
>
https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:Ladsgroup/%D8%…
> > > Best
> > > ---
> > > Amir
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