[WikiEN-l] Category translation

Tue Jun 6 22:32:05 UTC 2006

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/6/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at 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.