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
You bring up a good point. Is there anyway to have the interwiki links that show up on the sidebar point to a page with a different q# ID then the should? If we can do that we can have every version of a given book all point to a disambiguation page that lists all of the versions. I can't think of any other solution.
Sven On Nov 8, 2013 12:49 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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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.comwrote:
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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