Hoi, <grin> your answer is like "because they make similar categories like on en.wp" it does not answer the question if that makes sense and it does not answer the question why this should be replicated in turn in Wikidata. </grin> Thanks, GerardM
On 22 September 2013 22:41, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
That was a very good question! In Persian Wikipedia, there is another engine that adds categories in articles based on usage of them in English Wikipedia and in order to avoid mistakes that engine uses a pretty damn complicated algorithm that I have no clue what's that but It's working properly in Persian Wikipedia so We need interwiki of categories in order to fill them by bots
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On 9/22/13, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, What is the problem with people NOT considering interwiki links to categories as being relevant.. They are not the only ones.
In a similar way I have asked several times what the point is of
interwiki
links for disambiguation pages.. The only answer I got was along the
lines
of "because we can". Similarly I do not understand the point of interwiki links to categories. What is achieved by it ?
So technically you may do or have done a good job. When people appreciate it, good for you. But I fail to see the point.
Thanks, GerardM
On 22 September 2013 21:54, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of categories but It's not very common that people consider adding interwiki of categories (they think interwiki is just for articles) so we have tons
of
tons (before writing my engine that was 30K out of 170K) categories without any interwikis which is really bad. I wrote some codes to make it better but It wasn't enough So I wrote an engine that gets two database: 1-list of categories without interwiki 2-list of categories with interwiki to a certain language (e.g. English) with the target interwiki and after that my bot analyzes and "guess" what is the correct interwiki of category based on patterns of naming them in the second database and bot reports. After running this code on fa.wp there was a very huge report [1] and we started to sort things out (merging duplicates [2], deleting extra ones, adding the correct iw) and now it's less than 25K categories without interwikis (and It's becoming less and less) we did
the
same on templates namespace [3] and we interwikified more than 10K templates after that.
And because this engine doesn't use any language-related analyses It can be ran in any language and get interwiki from any language (we planned to
run
this on Persian Wikipedia again but this time we use Dutch and German languages as repo of interwiki)
So here is my question: Is there similar situation in your wiki? Do you want to run this code in your wiki too? Do you have any suggestion? [1]: https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:La... ردهها&oldid=10959457 [2]: One of the benefits of running this engine is we can find
duplicates
[3]:
https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:Ladsgroup/%D8%A...
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