Creating sitelinks to redirects:

As I understand it, the classic workaround for this is to
*  go to client wiki,
*  edit the page temporarily so that it is not a redirect
*  add a sitelink
*  edit the page again to turn it back into a redirect.

Thus, at least as I understand it, there is no overwhelming technical barrier to creating a sitelink to a redirect.


Looking back through the archives of Project Chat, it seems to be a perennial thing that we ought to permit sitelinks to redirects, eg most recently at

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Should_all_occupations_be_separate_items_from_their_skills.3F

which led to Kaldari filing Bugzilla: 71859


But I'm not quite sure exactly what he wants solved, if sitelinks to redirects are /already/ possible.  (Albeit requiring the slightly roundabout process above).


Perhaps what is needed is just a concerted RfC, to confirm once and for all that it is indeed the community view that such sitelinks are useful, and should be created.


But there are a couple of things it would be nice to have, to confirm the practice:
*  A badge (eg the letter R on a red disc) to indicate that the sitelink to language xx is linking to a redirect, not a primary article.
*  On an item, a new property "redirected to", taking another item as its object, and the identity of the wiki as a qualifier.


After that, we should go out creating this redirects on client wikis en masse, and site-linking them.

This would solve a huge number of issues we currently have, where wiki A has lots of little articles, whereas wiki B has the same content all in sections of one article; or where wiki A and wiki B have chosen different primary items for their treatment of a field.  (For example: the profession 'hatmaker' or the activity 'hatmaking').


Allowing and encouraging sitelinks to redirect is the key to keeping a clean item structure on Wikidata, while still connecting readers to the most relevant pages in their preferred alternative languages.

  -- James.



On 14/10/2014 21:00, Jane Darnell wrote:

nope

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Smolenski Nikola <smolensk@eunet.rs> wrote:

Citiranje Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com>:

2) There is no way of making an interwikilink for a redirect, and the
German Wikipedia's "afrikanische Pflaume" is currently a redirect to
"Prunus"

You should still be able to make an interwiki link for a redirect the old
way,
are you not?



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