As Wikidata grows this problem will become more significant. Using redirects doesn't seem a sustainable approach, but it will be hard to find better ones considering the number of people involved and the investment in the current platform.
The biggest challenge will be to convince Wikipedians to break free of the "article box". There is no reason to limit oneself to articles when there can be smaller building blocks that can be recombined in different articles with as much detail level as needed. Maybe after Commons there should be also a "Wikidata for Wikipedia content", where each article section or sentence is represented by an item that can be displayed in several articles or translated into different languages. Cheers, Micru On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Derric Atzrott < [email protected]> wrote: > Thought I'd throw in my opinion on the matter. After reading this thread > I think that I agree with the folks who believe that Wikidata items should > be able to specify a Wikipedia article that is a redirect as a sitelink to > Wikipedia. > > Its by no means an ideal solution, but I can't see any problems that it > causes and I do see problems that it fixes. If there are problems /for > Wikidata/ that allowing Wikidata items to link to Wikipedia redirects > causes, I would be happy to hear them. I imagine someone likely tried > to point some out, but I just didn't quite grasp them. > > Thank you, > Derric Atzrott > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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