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Whether it's bad to link pages on one wiki with one character to pages on another wiki with another character, depends on which characters would be treated as equivalent.
In T987, I mention some characters that are different: for geresh, he.Wikt standardizes apostrophes (ר') where en.Wikt standardizes geresh (ר׳); for palochkas, different wikis (sometimes internally-inconsistently) use upper- or lowercase palochka, I, І, 1, or other characters. I also mention an example of straight and curly apostrophes contrasting: there are separate pages on en.Wikt for Mopan Maya ka'an ("sky") vs Yucatec Maya ka’an ("sky"). However, I think based on discussion en.Wikt needs to fix the ka'ans by standardizing on one apostrophe. (And I think it's silly other wikis don't encode geresh as geresh and palochka as palochka.) I haven't seen a reason to think it'd cause problems for valid entries if the extension automatically linked straight-vs-curly apostrophes, and it'd save the trouble of continually needing to find which pages need redirects created for them. There may be more people on en.Wikt receptive to automatically linking different apostrophes than comments above suggest.
OTOH, hard redirects like vi.Wikt uses for xoá→xóa (mentioned in the above-linked ticket) would never be used by us on en.Wikt because they could be separate words in other languages, like Icelandic sóa and Hungarian soá are.
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