On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:21:32 +0900, Aphaia
<aphaia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:28:50 +0100, Yann Forget
<yann(a)forget-me.net> wrote:
BTW, there is also an article in Hebrew about
Coca-Cola,
but no link from
en.wikipedia.org.
So articles not wrtten with latin alphabet tend to isolate from
interlingual link network. This tendency is strong on newly launched
projects which need more help than larger ones.
There will indeed be an effect in that direction. I myself do
bot-assisted addition of interwiki-links, and to do that I have to
'guess' what the title of a subject in various languages is. Many
subjects (names of people, cities etc.) will be the same among the
various Latin alphabet wikipedias, but not in other languages. Thus, I
will pick up the former much easier than the latter. On the other
hand, if there is one link plus backlink somewhere, a bot can
relatively easily add the rest.
I think that the members of minor Wikis will need to accept the major
responsibility for this. The rest of us just don't have the required
knowledge. For them to create at least one Latin alphabet link to any
such language every time they start an article would give you a starting
point. This can be started more easily on a very small wiki; after that
it could perhaps become a habit for its members.
Ec