Hello,
So may I guess that "double links" are usually the result of a
Wikipedian who was not sure which language link to set, so in doubt,
he simply put in the language links for two different articles?
And in general, is it imagineable that different languages divide the
knowledge in different ways, which could jeopardize the whole goal of
Wikidata unifiying the language links?
Kind regards
Ziko
2012/6/25 Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org>rg>:
Thanks for this list. For the languages I know,
I've started going through
and fixing ones that are clearly wrong. If a number of people do that, that
should improve the general quality/consistency of interwiki links. I second
the other comment that it'd be nice if the parsing could be re-run to
exclude commented-out links, but the list is still useful as is.
There are some difficult cases, though, when languages make different
choices on how to group subjects, so the articles aren't actually in 1-to-1
correspondence. For example, the English article [[en: Móði and Magni]]
unsurprisingly has two outgoing interwiki links, when linking to languages
that split them, such as [[da:Magni]] and [[da:Modi]]. It's not clear what
to do about these cases.
Best,
Mark
On 6/25/12 12:29 PM, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
Hi all,
I ran some analysis last week, to get some numbers out of the
Wikipedia language links. One type of reports that were generated was
the list of all articles in the main namespaces of the Wikipedias that
link to more than one article in another language edition of Wikipedia
(so called double language links). There are not that many of them
(about 19,000 in total), split by language, all available here:
<http://simia.net/languagelinks/>
Double language links are not errors per se, but they contain a few
nuisances
* they lead to two links in the language links list that just look the
same (you have to hover over them to see that they link to different
languages), which is not really optimal from the user experience side
* they are not saved in the langlinks table and thus are ignored in
certain reports and also in the respective export
I am not sure how to reach out to the respective Wikipedia
communities, or if I should at all. Should I post to their respective
version of the village pump? Remembering from the time I was active on
the Croatian Wikipedia, I would have appreciated that list to check
the entries. I reckoned the wikipedia-l list would be the right place,
but that list looks rather dead.
Cheers,
Denny
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