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Commons categories are included as statements in Wikidata items. They are linked to from articles in other projects but the reverse is not true. It would benefit smaller projects to have incoming links from Commons categories. Wikivoyage in particular suffers Google rank penalties because of duplicate content and could really use the extra Google juice from these links. See discussions on [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#In_other_projects | Commons ]] and [[ https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#FYI_-_Links_from_Commons | Wikivoyage]]

Commons categories are included as statements in Wikidata items. They are linked to from articles in other projects but the reverse is not true. It would benefit smaller projects and their readers to have incoming links from Commons categories. Just as Commons benefits from having links from other projects. The value of interwiki links is self evident, unfortunately in this instance the link is broken. See discussions on [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#In_other_projects | Commons ]] and [[ https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#FYI_-_Links_from_Commons | Wikivoyage]]

Commons categories are included as statements in Wikidata items. They are linked to from articles in other projects but the reverse is not true. It would benefit smaller projects and their readers to have incoming links from Commons categories. Just as Commons benefits from having links from other projects. The value of interwiki links is self evident, Wikivoyage in particular suffers Google rank penalties because of duplicate content and could really use the extra Google juice from these linksunfortunately in this instance the link is broken. See discussions on [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#In_other_projects | Commons ]] and [[ https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#FYI_-_Links_from_Commons | Wikivoyage]]