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" <[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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
