I wholeheartedly support. Having done a good deal of inter-language linking on WP, many times I was forced to make a call on whether two similar articles, yet with different scope, should be linked.
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Ivan Cherevko | +38 050 382 97 88
On Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:
> Apologies, should this already have been discussed.
>
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model#The_Metamodel
> defines: Wikipedialink = (Title, LanguageId, Badge?)
>
> In my experience the scope or extent of entities in different
> Wikipedias sometimes differs. One Wikipedia considers an entity a
> valid lemma, whereas another Wikipedia subsumes it in a larger lemma.
>
> Would changing the model to:
> Wikipedialink = (Title, LanguageId, Relation, Badge?)
> where relation can be
> broader match
> close match
> exact match
> narrower match
>
> etc. help in expressing these situations? I believe this could prevent
> problems later on.
>
> The default (and initial import of interlanguage links) could easily
> be "close match" - to be refined only where required.
>
> Gregor
>
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