French safou should be fruit, because the tree is safoutier. German
afrikanische Pflaume is fruit as well. This is a 1:1 match. Prunus contains
tens of fruits which do exist as dedicated articles in enwp. If no link can
be made to redirects and not to paragraphs this looks like a serious
conceptual restriction?

Rupert
On Oct 14, 2014 5:40 PM, "Jane Darnell" <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are multiple issues with linking the German
> Wikipedia's "afrikanische Pflaume" to the French Wikipedia's "safou":
>
> 1) A tree can only interwikilink to a tree or combined article on the tree
> + fruit and a fruit can only interwikilink to a fruit or a combined
> article on the tree + fruit (this is the "single vs. multiple concepts"
> problem Gerard refers to)
> 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"
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:59 PM, rupert THURNER <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 13, 2014 2:07 PM, "Daniel Kinzler" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Am 12.10.2014 17:02, schrieb Romaine Wiki:
>> > > Hello Lydia,
>> > >
>> > > This is a different problem from the other issue I described in an
>> other mail.
>> > > I notice two different problems that occur with the same version. One
>> is about
>> > > the workflow, one is about less experienced/less technical users have
>> > > difficulties in adding site links.
>> >
>> > Linking a newly created article would be done using the "add links"
>> feature at
>> > the bottom of the sidebar. That should not have changed at all in the
>> last
>> > couple of months, as far as I know.
>> >
>> > Can you identify which change exactly is the problem, and why it is
>> problematic?
>>
>> I tried to link "afrikanische Pflaume " to "safou " the fruit and got an
>> error which was not helpful. I tried to report it here, and nobody used
>> time to look into it. So my personal user experience degraded from usable
>> to not usable.
>>
>> But I have no idea which change caused the this.
>>
>> Rupert
>>
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