Yes, Gerard and Jane - this looks like what I'm talking about. If I may dream for a moment, this should be something that can be used in all Wikipedias, and without copying this template everywhere, but built into the site's software :)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2015-02-11 22:47 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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