Thought that the pasted discussion from WD is of interest and adds to our
recent discussion on interwikis/interlanguage links.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_discourages_interwiki_links

Wikidata discourages interwiki links

Looking at Zhuangzi (Q1074987) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1074987>
*Zhuanhgzi*, I see that this data item is only for the work as it exists in
Chinese. The work as translated into English is a separate data item, and
the French Wikisource translation is another data item.

Effectively, this means that Wikidata discourages interwiki links to and
between Wikisource projects, because they will never be part of the same
data item. Further, anyone seeking a translation of a work into another
language must first come to Wikidata and surf the links even to find out if
translations of a work in another language exist on Wikisource; it is not
possible to do that from any Wikisource directly.

I thought the whole point of moving the links to Wikidata was to promote
connections between projects, not to eliminate them. But perhaps I am
wrong. --EncycloPetey <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:EncycloPetey> (
talk <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:EncycloPetey>) 02:19, 26 July
2015 (UTC)
@EncycloPetey <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:EncycloPetey>: There are
other ways to create interwiki by the help of Wikidata. See s:sv:Bibeln 1917
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/sv:Bibeln_1917> where I have made some
tests with the Bible (Q1845) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1845>. The
interwiki is created by the help of a Lua-module that follows edition(s)
(P747) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P747> and edition or
translation of (P629) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P629>. The
big advantage is that it makes possible to create intewiki to more than one
page in every project. For example, that page have 13 links to
enwikisource. -- Innocent bystander
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Innocent_bystander> (talk
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Innocent_bystander>) 05:49, 26
July 2015 (UTC) @Innocent bystander
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Innocent_bystander>:This is very
interesting, what template (and Lua-module) do you use ? it should be done
for all wikisources, that often have a lot of translated texts :) --
Hsarrazin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hsarrazin> (talk
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Hsarrazin>) 09:43, 26 July 2015
(UTC) @Hsarrazin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hsarrazin>: It's
s:sv:Modul:Sandlåda/Innocent
bystander
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/sv:Modul:Sandl%C3%A5da/Innocent_bystander>
who today is included in s:sv:Mall:Titel
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/sv:Mall:Titel>, a template that can be
found in almost every page on svsource. Observe that the module is not
secured against loops in the P747/P629-hierarcy. It also needs support by
the "interwiki-extra"-class in s:sv:MediaWiki:Common.js
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/sv:MediaWiki:Common.js>, otherwise you
cannot have more than one interwiki in each page. -- Innocent bystander
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Innocent_bystander> (talk
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Innocent_bystander>) 10:11, 26
July 2015 (UTC)BTW, another thing the code does: It makes it possible to
have interwiki to the Text-namespaces in als/bar/frr/pflwikis. -- Innocent
bystander <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Innocent_bystander> (talk
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Innocent_bystander>) 10:18, 26
July 2015 (UTC)
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