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 <bawo...@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.meijs...@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 <ladsgr...@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=کاربر:Ladsgroup/ > > > > 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%A7%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C > > > > Best > > > > --- > > > > Amir > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
