Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Wikidata/Indicate when Wikidata sitelink is to a redirect

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Indicate when Wikidata sitelink is to a redirect

  • Problem: The Wikidata community has now decided that sitelinks to (some) redirects should be allowed. (see RFC;subsequent discussion; 25,000 current uses of Template:Wikidata redirect on en-wiki).
    Where a Wikidata item links to a page that is a redirect on a particular wiki, it would be good if this was indicated on the Wikidata page; and by that wiki's entry in the sidebar interwiki links section of its corresponding Wikipedia pages. (An 'R' on a red circle might be appropriate next to the link, in at least some languages)
  • Who would benefit: Readers, who would know whether to expect the iw link to take them to an article with a matching subject; or whether the link would instead redirect to a related or umbrella topic.
  • Proposed solution: A relatively easy way to achieve this might be to use the "badge" mechanism, as currently used to identify interwikis to good and featured articles.
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Jheald (talk) 16:22, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • If I understand well the problem we have a script for this: mw.loader.load( '//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Matěj_Suchánek/checkSitelinks.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' ); It show redirect and disambiguation. --ValterVB (talk) 19:01, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The script add a simple, little icon ( or ) is more clear that the use of italics. --ValterVB (talk) 21:13, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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