User:Incnis Mrsi

Wikimania 2011
Haifa, Israel

Interlanguage links in Wikipedia:
current problems and future development

Incnis Mrsi

Use #wikipedia-interwiki at freenode to communicate

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Interlanguage links are metadata,
these data belong to Wikipedia in all languages,
not just to wiki which hosts a particular article.

What to do:

1. Extend and refine the structure
2. Make some use of semantics
3. Decrease the entropy

Also, some technical and organizational problems have to be solved.

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Extending and refining the structure

Current:

■→■ link just to an article.

■→# link to a section.

■→⇒x link through a redirect to something

There are different redirects:

Links through such redirects should even be encouraged.

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Proposed:

... or ...

w:Template:section-links

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Make use of the semantics

Define several types of articles (not exhaustively).

May occur without a proper structure ~ ~ §

Must be: ~   CAS: nnnnn ~   fouentium blahiensis ~ ~   ? born: 1973/12/06... ~   IMDB: nnnnn

Use some easily extractable attributes as keys.

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Decreasing the entropy

Enough said already about this. But central database should use semantics and extended features.

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  ■↔◉↔⇒#
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#

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Technical

No table for inbound links.

Poor traceability (particularly interwiki.py).

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Thanks for your attention!

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