One other thing that I thought about it is to use it in ContentTranslation (a.k.a CX).[1]
In ContentTranslation we have a link adaptation feature - if an article is available in the target language, it's automatically inserted as a link to the translation. In the current code, if the article doesn't exist in the target, nothing is done - it remains plain text. It could be more useful to insert a red link if Wikidata has a label in the target language. Furthermore, if there is no label in the target, the translation interface could ask the translator to supply a label, and then that label could be inserted into the translation as a red link AND committed as a label to Wikidata. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-09-06 13:51 GMT+03:00 Thomas Douillard <[email protected]>: > Hi all, I'm wondering about one usage Wikidata could be useful to > Wikipedias : Redlinks subject identification. > > Wikidata is good to identify subjects. Redlinks are used in Wikipedias to > identify subjects with currently no article. > > I post here because I think there is something to integrate this further, > but I don't know exactly what. > > A quick review about the current mechanisms we have to link items and/or > articles and subjects together : > * Wikidata interwikis. This works well. Links an item to articles and > articles titles > * articles redirect. This also works well, now we have a mechanism to link > article redirects with items, which is cool. > * There is currently templates like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6519884 > or https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15977575 Interesting mechanisms actually > * Wikidata items aliases : links a set of lexemes to an item > * Special:ItemByTitle and Special:GoToLinkedPage which are great, I don't > know how much they are used in practice though > > A little bit different but close > * items redirects > > This seems this covers a lot of the user usecases. Yet there is a lot of > red links in Wikipedia with actually no links to a Wikidata item. > > > My feeling is that what actually lacks in this picture is that the > templates are a bit hackish and that a deeper integration of item numbers > with redlinks would allow to go further and encourage users to make the > links at an earlier stage. What about a Wikisyntax to put an item number > into a Wikilink or a visual editor integration to suggest an entity every > time a user wants to enter a redlink ? > > This seems a low hanging fruit for WIkidata development and could make > Wikidata more real to Wikipedia communities. Especially compared to doing > this at the community level where this would require a big maintenance > effort and community knowledge about the templates to make the link > beetween the red label and the corresponding item concrete, especially if > visual editor make the information come to eveyone. > > One other solution could be to allow to associate items to yet non > existing articles to "reserve" them, allow redlinks into the Wikidata > interwiki list ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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