Well, I said I'd reply to this, so I suppose I will, even though it's going to be short and sweet.
On 6/6/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/6/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
I don't understand that. Interwiki links are the hard and fast en:Article <-> de:Artikel relationship. Are you unaware of iw links, or am I misinterpreting what you're saying? Maybe you could give an example?
They're not always 1:1. One topic might be given a whole article on one Wikipedia and only a paragraph on another. I'm not aware of any convention for handling that atm actually.
Looking a bit into this, I agree it'll be a hurdle. How big of a hurdle I still don't know.
For those situations where we *don't* have an article on the same topic in multiple languages, we don't have an interwiki link, and we wouldn't link the categories.
I suspect categories are much less comparable across languages than articles are, due to different conventions etc. But I don't really know.
OTOH, interwiki links already give us the automatic translation in terms of category information. Yes, there will probably be some article titles and category titles which don't translate well, but that's the exception and for those few titles we wouldn't have any iw links anyway.
More research needed.
Steve
Yep, more research is definitely needed.