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Based on the discussion in OpenStreetMap mailing list, I would like to propose a new way to open Wikipedia articles - with a Wikidata ID:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?wd=Q42 -> Douglas Adams
This way, Wikidata IDs can be used directly from other systems like OSM, without storing (or dynamically querying) the Wikipedia link. Storing Wikipedia title has proven to be a bad idea due to constant article renaming, especially when disambig pages are left behind.
Alternative: Multilingual redirect
The biggest problem with the above approach is that the external system must know which language of Wikipedia to use. In case of OSM, the "language of the land" is usually a good starting point, but often enough there is no such. So we could allow Wikipedia to dynamically redirect to another language, or better yet, instead of Wikipedia, add the endpoint to Wikidata itself, with a list of language fallbacks:
https://wikidata.org/w/index.php?q=Q42&site=wikipedia&langs=en,fr,ru,zh,de,ja,ANYTHINGThis way 3rd party sites can create links to Wikipedia/Wikivoyage/... without much code - simply provide a link, and let Wikipedia open something in the first available language.
Cc: Lydia_Pintscher, daniel, Smalyshev, Aklapper, Yurik, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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