> The other is to extend the link syntax similar to image syntax, for example > with [[Article Name|Alternate Text|wd=Q1234]]. This should be minimally disruptive > to the editors.
Yes - this would be more or less perfect, but it would require changes in core MediaWiki. If nothing else works, then it's possible, but seems harder to get through in practice. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2015-02-12 12:20 GMT+02:00 Smolenski Nikola <[email protected]>: > Citiranje "Amir E. Aharoni" <[email protected]>: > > 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? > > One possibility would be to allow creation of links to nonexisting > articles on > Wikidata, perhaps by using a new "nonexisting article" badge. Of course, > this > could lead to various problems on its own, > > The other is to extend the link syntax similar to image syntax, for example > with > [[Article Name|Alternate Text|wd=Q1234]]. This should be minimally > disruptive > to > the editors. > > Either one of these solutions would be useful for automated article > creation, > and other purposes, for example finding multiple unwritten articles with > the > same name about different topics, or finding erroneous links in Wikidata. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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