Well, I said I'd reply to this, so I suppose I will, even though it's
going to be short and sweet.
On 6/6/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/6/06, Anthony DiPierro
<wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
I don't understand that. Interwiki links are
the hard and fast
en:Article <-> de:Artikel relationship. Are you unaware of iw links,
or am I misinterpreting what you're saying? Maybe you could give an
example?
They're not always 1:1. One topic might be given a whole article on
one Wikipedia and only a paragraph on another. I'm not aware of any
convention for handling that atm actually.
Looking a bit into this, I agree it'll be a hurdle. How big of a
hurdle I still don't know.
For those
situations where we *don't* have an article on the same
topic in multiple languages, we don't have an interwiki link, and we
wouldn't link the categories.
I suspect categories are much less comparable across languages than
articles are, due to different conventions etc. But I don't really
know.
OTOH, interwiki links already give us the
automatic translation in
terms of category information. Yes, there will probably be some
article titles and category titles which don't translate well, but
that's the exception and for those few titles we wouldn't have any iw
links anyway.
More research needed.
Steve
Yep, more research is definitely needed.