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? > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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