hi there,
I recently read some papers/article about wikidata. I am confused at point where it is written that "wikidata is multilingual by design" and at the same time it also written that "wikidata centralized the language links". Then my doubt is that if wikidata is multilingual by design why we need language links at all ? Please help me to understand this.
I also have another question that if there is only one wikidata item for every article in all wikipedia. Then also in multiple wikipedia (i.e English, hindi, French etc) the content of article is somewhat different. How this happens ?
Please help me to clarify this doubts. Sincerely , Nikunj Soni Student Of NIT-Warangal INDIA
Hi, See items #10 and #11 at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#Editing for the answer to why we still occasionally need language links within articles (outside wikidata). I'm not sure what possible long-term solutions have been discussed. There might also be additional reasons (that I've forgotten or don't know about). Hope that helps. --quiddity
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Nikunj Aadesara nikunjaadesara@gmail.com wrote:
hi there,
I recently read some papers/article about wikidata. I am confused at point where it is written that "wikidata is multilingual by design" and at the same time it also written that "wikidata centralized the language links". Then my doubt is that if wikidata is multilingual by design why we need language links at all ? Please help me to understand this.
I also have another question that if there is only one wikidata item for every article in all wikipedia. Then also in multiple wikipedia (i.e English, hindi, French etc) the content of article is somewhat different. How this happens ?
Please help me to clarify this doubts. Sincerely , Nikunj Soni Student Of NIT-Warangal INDIA _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Il 02/04/2015 07:20, Nikunj Aadesara ha scritto:
hi there,
I recently read some papers/article about wikidata. I am confused at point where it is written that "wikidata is multilingual by design" and at the same time it also written that "wikidata centralized the language links". Then my doubt is that if wikidata is multilingual by design why we need language links at all ? Please help me to understand this.
Do you mean sitelinks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Sitelinks in Wikidata? What is "multilingual by design" is part of the /structured/ information we host, which is in turn only a fraction of all information available about a topic. To read a full article, a list of a subject's quotes, to view files about a topic, etc., you'd have to be pointed to sister projects in some way.
I also have another question that if there is only one wikidata item for every article in all wikipedia. Then also in multiple wikipedia (i.e English, hindi, French etc) the content of article is somewhat different. How this happens ?
Wikidata items collect links to articles covering the same topic. The project doesn't aim to force different Wikipedias to deal with these topics in the same way. However, links about totally different topics may have sometimes been merged into a single item: in such cases, a split https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Split_an_item is required.
Please help me to clarify this doubts. Sincerely , Nikunj Soni Student Of NIT-Warangal INDIA
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