Hoi,
I seriously fail to see how an example how Wikidata can be abused is a good
thing. Redirects are imho seriously stupid. They are utterly Wikipedia
centric and they introduce new things that do not exist.
- a redirect page to three pages is also called an disambiguation page..
We do support them. They are not redirects.
- when a redirect page refers to an article by another name, it only
takes a label to add the needed link to the subject
Seriously WHY ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT THIS?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 14 October 2014 23:22, James Heald <j.he...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Creating sitelinks to redirects:
>
> As I understand it, the classic workaround for this is to
> * go to client wiki,
> * edit the page temporarily so that it is not a redirect
> * add a sitelink
> * edit the page again to turn it back into a redirect.
>
> Thus, at least as I understand it, there is no overwhelming technical
> barrier to creating a sitelink to a redirect.
>
>
> Looking back through the archives of Project Chat, it seems to be a
> perennial thing that we ought to permit sitelinks to redirects, eg most
> recently at
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Should_
> all_occupations_be_separate_items_from_their_skills.3F
>
> which led to Kaldari filing Bugzilla: 71859
>
>
> But I'm not quite sure exactly what he wants solved, if sitelinks to
> redirects are /already/ possible. (Albeit requiring the slightly
> roundabout process above).
>
>
> Perhaps what is needed is just a concerted RfC, to confirm once and for
> all that it is indeed the community view that such sitelinks are useful,
> and should be created.
>
>
> But there are a couple of things it would be nice to have, to confirm the
> practice:
> * A badge (eg the letter R on a red disc) to indicate that the sitelink
> to language xx is linking to a redirect, not a primary article.
> * On an item, a new property "redirected to", taking another item as its
> object, and the identity of the wiki as a qualifier.
>
>
> After that, we should go out creating this redirects on client wikis en
> masse, and site-linking them.
>
> This would solve a huge number of issues we currently have, where wiki A
> has lots of little articles, whereas wiki B has the same content all in
> sections of one article; or where wiki A and wiki B have chosen different
> primary items for their treatment of a field. (For example: the profession
> 'hatmaker' or the activity 'hatmaking').
>
>
> Allowing and encouraging sitelinks to redirect is the key to keeping a
> clean item structure on Wikidata, while still connecting readers to the
> most relevant pages in their preferred alternative languages.
>
> -- James.
>
>
>
> On 14/10/2014 21:00, Jane Darnell wrote:
>
>> nope
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Smolenski Nikola <smole...@eunet.rs>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Citiranje Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> 2) There is no way of making an interwikilink for a redirect, and the
>>>> German Wikipedia's "afrikanische Pflaume" is currently a redirect to
>>>> "Prunus"
>>>>
>>>
>>> You should still be able to make an interwiki link for a redirect the old
>>> way,
>>> are you not?
>>>
>>>
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