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From: Amir E. Aharoni

Sent: 08/12/12 11:56 AM

To: wikidata-l

Subject: [Wikidata-l] thoughts about a plan for enabling interlanguage linking

 
Hi, 

I'm not sure that it was discussed already. If it was discussed, 
please point me there. I read the Technical proposal and the 
translatable pages on Meta and couldn't find it there. 

Is there any concrete plan to start the migration of the current 
interlanguage links to Wikidata storage? 

For example: 
* The interwiki bots' will definitely have to be modified for the 
Wikidata age. Did anybody start a conversation with the operators of 
these bots? 

 
* How will interwiki conflicts be handled? Judging by earlier 
discussions, I suppose that Wikidata will just let pages with 
conflicts work as they always did, but this is an important issue that 
should be answered in the FAQ.[1] 

 
* How will bots identify pages that use Wikidata? 

 
I am going to leave this question mostly unanswered for others. This  might be related to what you are talking about. 

 
Maybe the answer to all of the above questions is: "The Wikidata 
developers intentionally want to leave these things to the editors 
community". If it is, then this is fine. It is even hinted in the 
Technical proposal. But it should be written more explicitly, so that 
the communities will actually start to work on that. Again, if 
somebody already started it, please point me there. 

Thank you! 

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/FAQ 

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