This can be done with the special page "AboutTopic" with some additional
logic. It has been discussed at a few projects, but the necessary logic
isn't available. That means the redlink must be created with the q-id, and
there is no well-defined process on how to clean it up afterwards.

At nnwiki the article about Erich Mühsam (
https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_M%C3%BChsam) has a link in the infobox
to Oranienburg (https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spesial:AboutTopic/Q14808)
which is an article placeholder.

The necessary logic to avoid use of the q-id would be to use some kind of
"item disambiguation"-page instead of going straight to the "about
topic"-page. Still note that in a lot of cases the item can be
automatically disambiguated by simple cluster analysis.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 3:40 PM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Wikitech-l <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> All that red makes the page look bad, and i would like to point out the
> abuse factor here, all those red links start edit wars,
>
> and should be put there if any by people,
>
> The creation of the wikidata page also creats a problem, because it does
> not establis a lable which should be mandatory
>
> and in english,
> in the save proses.
>
> and this problem *
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Labels_and_descriptions#List_of_items_without_labels_and/or_descriptions
>
>
>
> >Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:58 AM -05:00 from Sergey Leschina <
> [email protected]>:
> >
> >I want to draw your attention to the problem from the other side. On the
> newly created page, which can be opened by the red link, there is no
> binding to the Wikidata. This means that after the creation, the page will
> not automatically be linked to the Wikidata. And if the project has
> templates that can use information from the Wikidata, they will not fully
> work until the page will be saved at least once and linked to an item. I
> already suggested to add the parameter for this:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178249
> >
> >If something like this will be implemented, then it will be possible to
> make a template for the red links (with Lua and TemplateStyles) that will
> be connected to the Wikidata. Although I agree that it is better to have a
> syntax that will allow to make links without such difficulties.
> >пн, 24 сент. 2018 г. в 20:50, Maarten Dammers < [email protected] >:
> >>Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>According to  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuM4E6IE5U : "Semantic
> >>annotation is the process of attaching additional information to various
> >>concepts (e.g. people, things, places, organizations etc) in a given
> >>text or any other content. Unlike classic text annotations for reader's
> >>reference, semantic annotations are used by machines to refer to."
> >>(more at
> >>https://ontotext.com/knowledgehub/fundamentals/semantic-annotation/ )
> >>
> >>On Wikipedia a red link is a link to an article that hasn't been created
> >>(yet) in that language. Often another language does have an article
> >>about the subject or at least we have a Wikidata item about the subject.
> >>Take for example
> >>https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Ris . It has over
> >>250 incoming links, but the person doesn't have an article in Dutch. We
> >>have a Wikidata item with links to 7 Wikipedia's at
> >>https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116510 , but no way to relate
> >>https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Ris with
> >>https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116510 .
> >>
> >>Wouldn't it be nice to be able to make a connection between the red link
> >>on Wikipedia and the Wikidata item?
> >>
> >>Let's assume we have this list somewhere. We would be able to offer all
> >>sorts of nice features to our users like:
> >>* Hover of the link to get a hovercard in your favorite backup language
> >>* Generate an article placeholder for the user with basic information in
> >>the local language
> >>* Pre-populate the translate extension so you can translate the article
> >>from another language
> >>(probably plenty of other good uses)
> >>
> >>Where to store this link? I'm not sure about that. On some Wikipedia's
> >>people have tested with local templates around the red links. That's not
> >>structured data, clutters up the Wikitext, it doesn't scale and the
> >>local communities generally don't seem to like the approach. That's not
> >>the way to go. Maybe a better option would be to create a new property
> >>on Wikidata to store the name of the future article. Something like
> >>Q116510: Pxxx -> (nl)"Friedrich Ris". Would be easiest because the
> >>infrastructure is there and you can just build tools on top of it, but
> >>I'm afraid this will cause a lot of noise on items. A couple of
> >>suggestions wouldn't be a problem, but what is keeping people from
> >>adding the suggestion in 100 languages? Or maybe restrict the usage that
> >>a Wikipedia must have at least 1 (or n) incoming links before people are
> >>allowed to add it?
> >>We could create a new projects on the Wikimedia Cloud to store the
> >>links, but that would be quite the extra time investment setting up
> >>everything.
> >>
> >>What do you think?
> >>
> >>Maarten
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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