Creating sitelinks to redirects:
As I understand it, the classic workaround for this is to
* go to client wiki,
* edit the page temporarily so that it is not a redirect
* add a sitelink
* edit the page again to turn it back into a redirect.
Thus, at least as I understand it, there is no overwhelming technical
barrier to creating a sitelink to a redirect.
Looking back through the archives of Project Chat, it seems to be a
perennial thing that we ought to permit sitelinks to redirects, eg most
recently at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Should_all_occupations_be_separate_items_from_their_skills.3F
which led to Kaldari filing Bugzilla: 71859
But I'm not quite sure exactly what he wants solved, if sitelinks to
redirects are /already/ possible. (Albeit requiring the slightly
roundabout process above).
Perhaps what is needed is just a concerted RfC, to confirm once and for
all that it is indeed the community view that such sitelinks are useful,
and should be created.
But there are a couple of things it would be nice to have, to confirm
the practice:
* A badge (eg the letter R on a red disc) to indicate that the sitelink
to language xx is linking to a redirect, not a primary article.
* On an item, a new property "redirected to", taking another item as
its object, and the identity of the wiki as a qualifier.
After that, we should go out creating this redirects on client wikis en
masse, and site-linking them.
This would solve a huge number of issues we currently have, where wiki A
has lots of little articles, whereas wiki B has the same content all in
sections of one article; or where wiki A and wiki B have chosen
different primary items for their treatment of a field. (For example:
the profession 'hatmaker' or the activity 'hatmaking').
Allowing and encouraging sitelinks to redirect is the key to keeping a
clean item structure on Wikidata, while still connecting readers to the
most relevant pages in their preferred alternative languages.
-- James.
On 14/10/2014 21:00, Jane Darnell wrote:
nope
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Smolenski Nikola <[email protected]> wrote:
Citiranje Jane Darnell <[email protected]>:
2) There is no way of making an interwikilink for a redirect, and the
German Wikipedia's "afrikanische Pflaume" is currently a redirect to
"Prunus"
You should still be able to make an interwiki link for a redirect the old
way,
are you not?
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