Lydia_Pintscher added a comment.
You can already use https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage for that. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage/enwiki/Q42 for example links you to the English Wikipedia article about Douglas Adams.
Pcoombe added a comment.
Just to point out that QRpedia (wiki article) does something similar.TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202299EMAIL PREFERENCEShttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/To: PcoombeCc: Pcoombe, TJones, Whatamidoing-WMF, Aklapper,
Johan added a comment.
Yeah, indicating a specific wiki as a source would be a good solution.TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202299EMAIL PREFERENCEShttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/To: JohanCc: TJones, Whatamidoing-WMF, Aklapper, CKoerner_WMF,
TJones added a comment.
While Wikidata items would be unambiguous, I think referencing a particular wiki as source is better, because it provides a better fallback than English if no article in the user's target language is available. Of course, using Wikidata as the intermediate stage to go from
Trizek-WMF added a comment.
In T202299#4515323, @Johan wrote:
Wikidata items could solve it, but few know how to use them.
We need a "Share that page to anyone" link. :)TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202299EMAIL
Johan added a comment.
Would this default to the English meaning, then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn is about an agricultural building. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn is about children. If I write https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn, how is the software to determine which one to link to?
TJones added a comment.
It might make sense to specify an initial language (ie., en.share.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Goat or whatever), otherwise the intent can be ambiguous. e.g., should share.wikipedia.org/Gift go to English "Gift" or German "Gift"
Whatamidoing-WMF added a comment.
I think that this is the use case that interests me the most: At mediawiki.org, it should be possible to write, "TechCom has a weekly meeting in [[magic-language:IRC]]." and have everyone who clicks that link be able to figure out what IRC is.TASK
