Hi,
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?
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