That was a very good question! In Persian Wikipedia, there is another engine that adds categories in articles based on usage of them in English Wikipedia and in order to avoid mistakes that engine uses a pretty damn complicated algorithm that I have no clue what's that but It's working properly in Persian Wikipedia so We need interwiki of categories in order to fill them by bots
Best On 9/22/13, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> 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 <[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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Amir _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
