Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Currently, when an editor create at some wikiproject an interwiki link
> using [[Lang:Project:Page|Text]] the readers get a link to a "Page" of
> "Project" (in the "Lang" language) and "Text" is shown in the link.
> Besides this:
> 1) The "title" attribute of the <a> element is equals to (something
> not very intuitive for readers): [[Lang:Project:Page]].
> 
> 2) If "Text" is equals to "Page", and we want/need to show only the
> "Page" text, it is needed to use [[Lang:Project:Page|Page]] (although
> for local links [[A very long page name|A very long page name]] can be
> abbreviated to [[A very long page name]])
> 
> 3) When the target page doesn't exists, the reader go to a page
> showing the system message "MediaWiki:Noarticletext".
> 
> 
> I have some considerations:
> 1) What if the title attribute could be something more descriptive
> like "Search at Project (in Lang) for pages related to 'Page'"?
> The exact text could be translated for each language (or accordingly
> to the target project), in such way that "Page", the real name of
> "Project" (Wikipedia instead of "w", etc...) and the real name of
> "Language" could be variables $1, $2, etc...;
> 
> 2) For example, if in a page of a wikibook we need to use various
> links to wiktionary and Wikinews, we would have to duplicate the total
> size of each link (the number of characters to be typed) just to have
> only the "Page" text shown. This is also bad for summaries, where we
> can not use a long text. Perhaps another _short_ syntax could be used
> to get "Page" instead of "Lang:Project:Page" without having to type
> (the possible very long) "Page" two times (maybe the prefixed colon
> [[:Lang:Project:Page]]?), in order to facilitate the integration
> between the content of the projects;

Seems you don't know the pipe trick. Type [[Lang:Project:Page|]] and it
will be automatically expanded to [[Lang:Project:Page|Page]] on save.


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