Hoi,
Have a look at this article ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Skolnik_Award
Thanks to Magnus for a blog post I am still to write.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 11 February 2015 at 20:26, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> TL;DR: How can a red link be annotated in a semantic way with a foreign
> article title or a Wikidata Q item number?
>
> Imagine: I'm writing a Wikipedia article in Russian. There's a red link in
> it. I don't have time to write the target article for that link now, but
> I'm sure that it should exist. In fact, that article does exist in the
> English Wikipedia.
>
> I want the link to be red (fr the usual wiki reasons), but until the
> Russian article is written, I want to give the software a hint about which
> topic it is supposed to be about. Telling it the English article name would
> be one way to do it. Giving it the Wikidata Q item number would be an even
> better way to do it.
>
> Unfortunately, MediaWiki does not currently have true syntax to do either.
> (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
>
> Some Wikipedias may have templates that do something like this (e.g.
> Russian: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:En ). But there's nothing
> that is uniform to all projects.
>
> *Why* is it useful to give the software this hint in the first place? Most
> simplistically, it's useful to the reader - in case that reader knows
> English, she can at least read something.
>
> But there's something bigger. When the ContentTranslation extension
> translates links, it automatically adapts links that can be found. What to
> do about those that can't be auto-adapted? It frequently happens when
> Wikipedians translate articles that many links in the created articles turn
> out to be red. We'd love to get ContentTranslation to help the translators
> make those articles by writing relevant articles with as few clicks as
> possible, and that is only possible by annotating the red links with the
> topics to which they belong.
>
> So, any ideas?
> What do other Wikipedias for such annotation?
> Is it imaginable to add wiki syntax for such a thing?
> Can anybody think of a hack that reuses the current [[link]] syntax to add
> such annotation?
>
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