Wikipedia:WikiProject Interlanguage Links

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Introduction

This project's aim is to increase the number and quality of interlanguage links in Wikipedia articles. Interlanguage links are links from an article in one Wikipedia language to the same subject in another Wikipedia language - for example potato in the English-language wikipedia and pomme de terre in the French-language version.

Planned activities include:

Locating and removing invalid interlanguage links
Adding new interlanguage links between relevant articles
Identifying articles in particular need of interlanguage links

Status

Created August 2007, has active tasks.

To do

Generate lists of suggestions for interlanguage links, explore new methods of doing same and to boldly go where pas de hombre has gone before.

Existing interlanguages links that possibly should not be:
- Interlanguage links from redirect pages
- Interlanguage links to pages that do not exist (A:X links to B:X which does not exist) ("bad target")
- Interlanguage links to redirect pages (A:X links to B:X, but B:X redirects to B:Y)
Interlanguage links that possibly should exist:
- Suggested reciprocal links (A:X links to B:Y, should B:Y link back to A:X ?)
- Potential commutations (A:X links to B:X and C:X. Should B:X should link to C:X also?)
- Induced links (A:X links to B:X and B:X links to C:X. Should A:X link to C:X?)
Interlanguage links that are possibly incorrect
- Inconsistent interlanguage links (A:X links to B:X, but B:X links to A:Y)
- Pages that link more than once to the same language (A:X links to B:X and B:Y)
- Pages that are linked to from multiple page in a given language (Both A:X and A:Y link to B:X)

Participants

Add yourself to the list below if you'd like to help out.

TB
Rigadoun (talk) 20:52, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Dr. Breznjev
Sapphic
Amir E. Aharoni
Kostisl (talk) 18:41, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Atlantima (talk) 17:11, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
mokra (talk) 14:03, 24 may 2013 (utc)

Scripts and tools

The script used to generate lists of suggested interlanguage links
Tool to find articles with same name but without interwikis
Tool to find pages without interwiki in particular category

General strategy and discussion forums

Stats

The average number of interlanguage links per page per given wikipedia language varies greatly. Far and away the 'worst' is the English-language version, partly because there are many pages in it for which no article exists in another language, but also because those for whom a variant of English is their native tongue often only speak that language.

Number of interlanguage links in the ten largest wikipedias languages
Date		en	de	es	fr	it	nl	ja	pl	pt	sv
August 2007	#pages	9786449	1690876	689972	1486138	971594	733627	945304	695312	1072890	520524
	#langlinks	3655600	2717402	1979032	2777222	2133302	2181358	1867345	2257970	1912761	1750303
	#langlinks/page	0.374	1.607	2.863	1.869	2.196	2.973	1.976	3.247	1.783	3.363

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