Yeah, looking into labels is certainly something that I considered, but that is by definition only a guess and not as bulletproof as Q numbers.

We considered doing stuff like:
* [[not-yet-written article about Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams]]

* [[not-yet-written article about Douglas Adams#Q42|Douglas Adams]]

... and this would kinda work, but would be leave a lot of mess to the community editors to clean up. The template way, suggested by Gerard, is similar and seems slightly less messy to me. But only slightly.

(If anybody cares, the relevant task in ContentTranslation is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88580 .)

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2015-02-12 7:51 GMT+02:00 Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl>:

Hi Amir,

Amir E. Aharoni schreef op 11-2-2015 om 13:12:

If I may dream for a moment, this should be something that can be used in all Wikipedias, and without copying this template everywhere, but built into the site's software :)

Exactly, the template based approach doesn't scale at all. You have to somehow make it automatic. One thing I thought about is adding suggested sitelinks to Wikidata. The software would encounter a red link and would look in Wikidata if it can find an item with a suggested sitelink of the same title. Huge software overhaul so I don't see that happening.

Another approach that is probably already possible right now:
* Take an article with a red link
* Look at the links in the article in other languages.
* If you find a link that points to another article which has the same label as the red link in the same language, link to it

I wonder how many good results that would give.

Maarten

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