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 :)


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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?
>>
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>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
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