Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Wikidata/Interwiki links between different wikidata item

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Interwiki links between different wikidata item

  • Problem:
    • Wikipedia articles are stored in wikidata according to concept
    • Often, two concepts that are similar to each other but different would be stored separately in wikidata
    • In these cases, the current solution is to use either the Template:Interwiki_extra on local wikipedia or old-style interwiki link which are both cumbersome and does not fit with the model of storing all the info in wikidata.
    • These solutions aren't being maintained and monitored across all the different wikis either
    • Often, that would mean users cannot jump from a wiki language version A with a concept 1 to a wiki language version B with a concept 1*, unless the user really know well about wikidata system and click into wikidata and check related wikidata item
  • Who would benefit:
    • All users in all wikimedia projects trying to check out interlanguage links.
  • Proposed solution:
    • Use a wikidata property on all the items that this method can be applied with value being other wikidata items.
    • For all wikidata item using the property, after checking the interlanguage link within same wikidata item, the program should also look for if there are any missing language version in any of those other linked wikidata items. If there are such wiki version, then they should also be served as a interwiki link to end users.
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