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_and_Wikidata
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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