I agree with your two points. Since badges don't need statements, just associated items to any given page, would it be possible to adapt the "alias interface" to tag sitelinks with badges? GUI-wise, is more or less what is needed to fulfill those requirements, a second row for each of the sitelinks that lists all the badges (actually items) associated with a given article in a language.

If there the sitelink list grows too large, it could be hidden, with a 4th column "Badges" (next to "Language-Code-Linked page") with a text "X badges" (expandable, similar to statement sources). Not sure if I expressed myself correctly or if it is feasible, I could draw a mockup if wanted.

Anyhow, I just hope that the performance issues are fixed before spending too much time on badges... I still get the "unresponsive script error" every time...

Micru