Taylor added a comment.
> Do you believe that if someone opens a Wikidata item with 100
> sitelinks, Wikidata should query all 100 Wikipedia projects every time?
Of course NOT. Do you believe that if someone opens a Wikipedia page with
200 templates and modules. Wikipedia
Taylor added a comment.
> Adding Wikidata badges in Wikidata via a bot needs one bot approval within
Wikidata
> Adding a magic word to existing redirects would require a bot request on
every Wikimedia project
There are already approved bots, and this can be made via a glob
Taylor added a comment.
Right ... quit ping-spamming, and make sure to give a support vote after
2022-01-28:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Wikidata/Do_not_follow_sitelink_redirects_when_redirect_badge_is_used#VALIDREDIRECT
TASK DETAIL
https
Taylor added a comment.
I still think that a **magic word is the preferable approach**, irrespective
of progress with the temporary fix with many badges. Discard the badges and use
__VALIDREDIRECT__ instead. Let wikidata autodetect "redirect to page" vs
"redirect to secti
Taylor added a comment.
**Support**. Discard the badges and use `__VALIDREDIRECT__` instead. Let
wikidata autodetect "redirect to page" vs "redirect to section" and display
appropriate icon, and autodetect `__VALIDREDIRECT__` too resulting in
"intentional redir
Taylor added a comment.
> I assume removing the badge from a sitelink should be disallowed if the
target page is (currently) a redirect?
Sure.
Some further thougts:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#BUG:_%22intentional_sitelink_to_redirect%22_does_not_w
Taylor added a comment.
4 years later. A solution is needed for "
https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/When_in_Rome,_do_as_the_Romans_do. " vs "
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/when_in_Rome,_do_as_the_Romans_do ". Either by
allowing linking to redirects, or by some other tric
