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- stale --Pasleim (talk) 09:11, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Do any guidelines exist on how to use interwiki links on Wikidata items? With regard to Wikipedia, it is obvious - the Wikidata item for the concept "guitar" (Q6607) is linked to the Wikipedia article about that very same concept, w:Guitar. But what about Wikibooks? There could be many wikibooks that happen to concern guitars - "Learning to play the guitar", "How to build a guitar", "The history of the guitar", etc. Is it at all appropriate to link the generic concept of "guitar" into a one-to-one relation with any one of these specific books? If it is, then how should the appropriate book be chosen (beyond mere coin tossing)?--Anders Feder (talk) 00:14, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I think you should separate two different things: Interwiki and Wikidata-sitelinks. Interwiki can use Wikidata-sitelinks, but it can also use the old-style links [[b:How to play a guitar]] or templates like {{Commonscat|Learning to play a guitar}}. Interwiki with the use of links and templates are private concern for the local projects, and should not be discussed here. Our concerns here is only and only sitelinks. -- Innocent bystander (talk) 09:18, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Indeed.--Anders Feder (talk) 10:24, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
my opinion: When it comes to Wikidata-sitelinks, I think we not should allow neither "b:How to play a guitar" or "b:How to build a guitar" to share item with "w:Guitar". Instead we should create a Property like "Learning subject" (if it does not exist already) to be able to connect the "How to"-item with the "Guitar"-subject. Books about Math could link to items like differential calculus (Q149999) and others in that way. Templates can be designed to create iw-linking through these properties. In that way we would allow both "build" and the "play"-page to have links to the "guitar"-articles on WP. -- Innocent bystander (talk) 11:21, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Regarding the property, we have main subject (P921).--Anders Feder (talk) 03:08, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Sounds good! -- Innocent bystander (talk) 08:34, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that we shouldn't link a Wikipedia article on a concept to a specific Wikibooks book. There are pages on Wikibooks such as Subject:Aerospace engineering that can be linked to aerospace engineering (Q3798668) painlessly. However, I suggest making an exception for Cookbook recipes. They should be directly linked to their counterparts in Wikipedia since there is a 1-1 relation. Pikolas (talk) 23:39, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I am not sure that exception works easily. On svbooks I find 18 recipe-pages based on Alces alces (Q35517) and five on rhubarb (Q7535). You may argue that you can separate the general moose-recipe-page from the moose-meatballs-recipe-page. But there is still two pages about rhubarb-lemonade and several pages about moose-sausage. I find one article with the name "sourdough starter (Q904889) 2", so I guess there is also a "sourdough 1"-page somewhere. -- Innocent bystander (talk) 10:04, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Pikolas's idea is so nice but subject namespace is supposed to be treated like the "Portal:" namespace on other wikis!--دوستدار ایران بزرگ (talk) 09:08, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]