The idea of linking red links is very interesting, I believe, especially as we have Wikidata items to many of the missing articles. We discussed the concept of "smart red links" (linking to the ArticlePlaceholder pages, as someone pointed out before) a while ago, documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder/Smart_red_links
I believe it's a very interesting direction to explore, especially for Wikipedias with a smaller amount of articles and therefore naturally a higher amount of red links.
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 21:06, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Hello,
On 27-09-18 01:16, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 24 September 2018 at 18:48, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl
wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to make a connection between the red
link on
Wikipedia and the Wikidata item?
This facility already exists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Interlanguage_link#Link_to_Reasonator... You seem to have done some selective quoting and selective reading. I addressed this in my original email:
On 24-09-18 19:48, Maarten Dammers wrote:
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.
James also shared some links related to this.
Maarten
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