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.
-- 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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