One thing could be looking for an article in one language but either not knowing the correct phrase or exact spelling but knowing enough to use related categories to find the article on a different language project. And go from there
On Sunday, September 22, 2013, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, Again this does not answer the question why it makes sense to have interwiki links for categories in Wikidata. Thanks, GerardM
On 22 September 2013 23:56, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
In the past I was asked do certain statistics based on categories for wikinews. Having interwikis was rather key for that.
-bawolff On 2013-09-22 5:26 PM, "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...
Best
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