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 <[email protected]> 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
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