One quick idea of which I'm not quite sure if your idea covers or not: Inside an article in language A is a red link to a non-existing article in that language but it does exist for language B. Interacting with the red link in the wiki for language A offers the option of reading it in language B. Could be quite useful in cases where a lot of people who understand language A also understand language B.
With regards, Svavar Kjarrval On 06/09/14 10:51, Thomas Douillard wrote: > 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 > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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