We have the same in Norwegian, but linking on part of a composite is almost
always wrong. Either you link on the whole composite or no part of the
composite. If you link on a part of a composite, then in nearly all cases I
have seen the link is placed on the wrong term.
Some examples on what insanity users write
- [[absorpsjon]]s[[Spektrallinje|linjene]]
- [[Autentisering]]s[[Protokoll (datamaskiner)|protokollen]]
- [[Sykepleie|sykehjem]]s[[Hjemmesykepleie|omsorg]]
From an article messed up by VE (yes it does mess up articles sometimes!)
- ma[[Øssur Havgrímsson|ge]]<nowiki/>e[[Øssur Havgrímsson|evner og]]
- og[[Øssur Havgrímsson|i]]<nowiki/>t[[Øssur Havgrímsson|det samme]]
I have no clue what the previous means…
Things like the following is quite common
- [[Alexander Kielland]]<nowiki/>s
- [[De forente nasjoner|FN]]<nowiki/>s
Usually it comes from user errors while using VE. This kind of errors are
quite common, and I asked (several years ago) whether it could be fixed in
VE, but was told "no".
Anyhow I just started a bot to clean up some of the mess…
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 6:59 PM Thiemo Kreuz <thiemo.kr...@wikimedia.de>
wrote:
> Hey!
>
> The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the
> German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same:
> <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the
> better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For
> example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es­tag".
>
> Not long ago <b/> was often used. This became a problem with the
> recent parser updates. All <b/> got replaced with <nowiki />, as far
> as I'm aware of.
>
> > in German, shouldn't they be tweaking the "linktrail" setting on dewiki,
> instead of using `<nowiki/>`? What are cases where they *do* want the link
> to include the entire word?
>
> The software feature exists because of English [[word ending]]s. The
> same exists in German ("viele [[Wiki]]s, viele [[Tisch]]e, viele
> [[Arbeit]]en"), but is overshadowed by the fact that German is a
> language with many composites. From my experience, the fact that all
> linktrails, no matter how long, become part of the link is almost
> always a problem. It enlarges the click region, which is good, but
> surprises the reader when he ends at an unexpected article. I guess it
> would actually be a net-gain when the feature gets turned off or tuned
> down in German wikis. For example, we could limit the length of the
> linktrail to 2 characters.
>
> Is somebody interested in creating usage statistics for these
> linktrails in the German Wikipedia main namespace?
>
> Best
> Thiemo
>
> [1]
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verlinken#Verlinkung_von_Teilw%C3%B6rtern
>
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