Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Interlanguage Links

de:Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia Interwiki-Link-Checker/en
Has anyone worked with de:Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia Interwiki-Link-Checker/en? I would imagine that much of the logic you are looking for is embedded in this. --Open2universe 22:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I've used it. All it does is search for articles with the same title on different wikipedias, and then prompt users to affirm they are the same article, or say they aren't. It's useful for establishing ties for articles that are usually listed under the same name in different languages, like people and places. It's useful, and I encourage others to use it, but its utility is limited for fields which often don't have the same name, such as science and history. The same limitation exists for another tool, the Global Wikipedia Article Search.Rigadoun (talk) 17:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Interlang Transwiki
Is there an interlang transwiki process? 132.205.44.5 (talk) 23:50, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The process is described at Help:Transwiki. The example at the bottom shows how to move from one language Wikipedia to another. Rigadoun (talk) 04:55, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

How we do it on the Hebrew Wikipedia
Hi,

Several editors in the Hebrew Wikipedia have been pretty good at adding interwiki links to articles there. I somehow ended up coordinating that effort there and now i feel that other Wikipedias may benefit from this. I couldn't find anything really similar in Wikipedias in any other language that i can read.

This WikiProject seems fitting in its name, but i don't see any detailed processes or tools for this. (But maybe i don't understand something.)

I wrote a detailed explanation in English about what we do in he.wiki and you can find it here: WikiProject Interlanguage Links/Ideas from the Hebrew Wikipedia. I also advertised it on the Wikipedia-l mailing list. I got several responses from interested Wikipedians from English, Spanish, Swedish and Russian Wikipedias and i believe that this may help a lot of projects in other languages. (My intuition says that Wikipedias in the 5000-200000 articles range will have the most benefit from it.)

Some discussion started on the talk page there, but Hebrew Wikipedia is too exotic a place for an international discussion, especially with our right-to-left forms, which make it very hard to write in English. So - i would like to propose it as a process for the English Wikipedia, too. I shall be especially pleased to see that explanation page translated to other languages.

Again and again: any comments are welcome. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:17, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Within a few days i'll complete the roll-out of this way of working in the Russian Wikipedia. If there are no comments here, i'll be bold and start rewriting the main page of this project in accordance with WikiProject Interlanguage Links/Ideas from the Hebrew Wikipedia.
 * If you read Russian, see: ru:Википедия:Проект:Интервики. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

From Greek Wikipedia: Use a list of articles without interwikis and ... start finding interwikis. Then put interwiki in the local and the english wikipedia. Make an interwiki project to make it known. Support it with feedback, awards, welcome to new members. --FocalPoint (talk) 20:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Wrong interwiki links in many disambiguation pages
Note: Already posted in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation.

Many interwiki links in disambiguation pages are bogus. Here is the problem: Clearly, L2:W2 has nothing in common with L3:W3 (not the same word, not the same meanings). So, there should be no interwiki links between L2:W2 and L3:W3. The problem is that it happens. Why? It happens because somebody linked L1:W1 to L2:W2 because of the shared m1 meaning, then somebody else linked L3:W3 to L1:W1 because of the shared m2 meaning. Then robots linked everything together.
 * Let's say that word W1 has meanings m1, m2 and m3 in language L1.
 * Then we create a disambiguation page L1:W1, with links to articles L1:W1 (m1), L1:W1 (m2), and L1:W1 (m3).
 * Let's say that word W2 has meanings m1, m4 and m5 in language L2.
 * Then we create a disambiguation page L2:W2, with links to articles L2:W2 (m1), L2:W2 (m4), and L2:W2 (m5)..
 * Let's say that word W3 has meanings m2 and m6 in language L3.
 * Then we create a disambiguation page L3:W3, with links to articles L3:W3 (m2), and L3:W3 (m6).

The root of the problem is that interwiki between disambiguation pages should not be based on meanings (actually one meaning among several in one language), but on the word itself. A disambiguation page is about a word.

The disambiguation page L1:W1 should only have interwiki links to W1 disambiguation pages in other languages (they are disambiguation pages for the W1 word). The disambiguation page L2:W2 should only have interwiki links to W2 disambiguation pages in other languages (they are disambiguation pages for the W2 word)... Marc Mongenet (talk) 19:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki conflicts
VolkovBot maintains a monthly updated list of interwiki conflicts encountered in different language wikipedias. It may be helpful for those who are interested in working with interwiki links. --Volkov (?!) 13:24, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Links to "sort of" related articles
I watch a English-language scandal article that editors have cheerfully linked to a worse scandal article in two other languages. The scandal has a different title, a different scope. So instead of "actress X flirtation with Y" we have "actresses X and Z and a menage a trois with W." Not quite the same thing at all! (BTW I don't like scandal articles and would like to delete it along with other editors. We have failed).

But are we required to accept an almost deliberate mistranslation in another language? It seems to me that they can a) translate that article into English and link it. From our POV, they can translate OUR English language article into another language and merge similarities or whatever. But where does it specify that there has to be some correlation between two articles that are supposed to be "clones"? Student7 (talk) 20:58, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Help:Interlanguage links says very clearly: "Interlanguage links are links from any page (most notably articles) in one Wikipedia language to the same subject in another Wikipedia language."
 * There must not be an interlanguage link between articles which deal with different affairs. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

fr:Projet:Interwikification
Hello, I am coming from French wikipedia. I created a board with interlanguage lists French <-> English. Some French articles don't have any interlanguage link, whereas some English articles have the same title. By 70%, they match. If you want helping to contribute to link Englich articles to French is on this page fr:Projet:Interwikification. Maybe we can do the reverse operation. English articles without interlanguage links which have the same title on French wikipedia. If some people are interested, please leave me a message. --Sisyph (talk) 22:57, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Bad target
I'm working for a while now on the interlanguage links to pages that do not exist (also know as bad target). Two types of items regularly show up, which aren't really bad targets. First, when a interwiki link written with a small letter it will refer to the correct interwiki page. I'm not sure if I need to re-capitalize such a link. Second, a interlanguage link to a section on a foreign wiki is seen as a bad target as well. These will some up again in a next batch, if the script isn't changed. Dr. Breznjev (talk) 09:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello, I'm not sure to well understand, for example, if French page doesn't exist, we look for a good link, anyway we delete the line. Same thing for English pages which don't exist. If interlanguage link is correct, we strike the line (e.g. en:Will McCormack and fr:Will McCormack). That's correct? --Sisyph (talk) 14:22, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

The bad target-section lists those English pages with links to an another language (currently only French) where that specific page doesn't exist. For example, the English page Foxi Kethevoama interwikied to fr:Foxi Kethevoama, a page that doesn't exist. Therefore, such an interwikilink should be removed. However, the list also gives those items that have in essence correct interwikilinks, but have other issues.

The first one is an interwikilink starting with a small letter. For example, Harrespil interwikied to fr:harrespil. The link interwikies to the correct page, but it is not in the correct format. Currently, I capitalize such a link, but I don't know if that is needed or not.

The second one is an interwikilink to a section in a page on the other language. For example, Bad_faith_(existentialism) interwikies to fr:Existentialisme. Because it discusses the same issues, these entries seem correct. Therefore, I do not change them. However, when a new dump should be analyzed with the same script, these entries will show up again. Dr. Breznjev (talk) 09:29, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Articles w/more than one Interlanguage link for the same language
Is it acceptable for an article to have more than one Interlanguage link for the same language. Mark I tank has multiple links for several languages (e.g. 3 for German, 5 for Dutch). In this example, it seems to be because the English article covers the Mark I and several other related tanks, whereas the other language Wikis have separate articles for the related ones.

This is only an example: I've seen other articles with multiple links to the same other-language Wiki for other reasons, or even reasons I couldn't figure out. Is that acceptable at all, for any reason? --Auntof6 (talk) 10:32, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Articles with no interwiki links in Wikimedia projects
I guess you may be interested in my tool: http://toolserver.org/~holek/stats/no-interwiki.php. It can show up to 1000 articles with no interwiki links. It can search within one category and sort them as you wish. Hope it'll come handy. :) Hołek &#1161; 22:21, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Interlanguage link template for user pages
I'm looking to have links to things like my userspace and talk page, watchlist and mainpage at several interlanguage wikipedia projects, as well as commons, meta, wikivoyage, etc. Does anyone know of a template that has this kind of functionality already prepackaged, or do I need to get programming? VanIsaacWScont 15:27, 29 November 2020 (UTC)