[Wikimedia-l] Language links and double language links on the Wikipedias

[Bence Damokos]

Hi Denny,

This is a really interesting list.
Looking at the Hungarian list, I find that in many instances the duplicate
interwiki link is actually commented out (in the form of "<!-- Source:
[[en: something]] --> or <!-- wrong interwikis: [[en: ..] [[fr: ..]] -->),
and not real duplicate links. (In some cases there are indeed duplicate
links, where one concept covers two concepts in other languages.)

Maybe you could refine your search algorithm to exclude commented out
links, and improve your listing page by including not only the second
interwiki link found for a given language, but also the first one, so it is
easier to assess without having to check the article pages or source codes?

In any case, the village pumps might be a good place to post a link to the
lists. The "Global message delivery" system might help you in that:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery

Best regards,
Bence

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Denny Vrandečić <
denny.vrandecic at wikimedia.de> 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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