I wholeheartedly support. Having done a good deal of inter-language linking on WP, many
times I was forced to make a call on whether two similar articles, yet with different
scope, should be linked.
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On Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:
Apologies, should this already have been discussed.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model#The_Metamodel
defines: Wikipedialink = (Title, LanguageId, Badge?)
In my experience the scope or extent of entities in different
Wikipedias sometimes differs. One Wikipedia considers an entity a
valid lemma, whereas another Wikipedia subsumes it in a larger lemma.
Would changing the model to:
Wikipedialink = (Title, LanguageId, Relation, Badge?)
where relation can be
broader match
close match
exact match
narrower match
etc. help in expressing these situations? I believe this could prevent
problems later on.
The default (and initial import of interlanguage links) could easily
be "close match" - to be refined only where required.
Gregor
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