As Wikidata grows this problem will become more significant. Using
redirects doesn't seem a sustainable approach, but it will be hard to find
better ones considering the number of people involved and the investment in
the current platform.
The biggest challenge will be to convince Wikipedians to break free of the
"article box". There is no reason to limit oneself to articles when there
can be smaller building blocks that can be recombined in different articles
with as much detail level as needed.
Maybe after Commons there should be also a "Wikidata for Wikipedia
content", where each article section or sentence is represented by an item
that can be displayed in several articles or translated into different
languages.
Cheers,
Micru
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Derric Atzrott <
datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com> wrote:
Thought I'd throw in my opinion on the matter.
After reading this thread
I think that I agree with the folks who believe that Wikidata items should
be able to specify a Wikipedia article that is a redirect as a sitelink to
Wikipedia.
Its by no means an ideal solution, but I can't see any problems that it
causes and I do see problems that it fixes. If there are problems /for
Wikidata/ that allowing Wikidata items to link to Wikipedia redirects
causes, I would be happy to hear them. I imagine someone likely tried
to point some out, but I just didn't quite grasp them.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
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