Page previews for transwiki, userpage, and other space pages. (Community Wishlist/W196)

Description

On the English Wikipedia, it's possible to hover over mainspace article links on other pages and see a preview of the link destination. This currently only works for mainspace articles. I would like this to also be possible on transwiki links. For example, If I link to Wiktionary on my English Wikipedia userpage, I'd like to be able to hover over that link and view a preview of the definition.

User space previews may prove to be more difficult, since they have unreliable formatting. Mostly a transwiki preview system, or even just a way to make transwiki links a little more intuitive, would be awesome.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish

System change

Tags

Reading

Affected users

unsure, power users, or just everyday viewers of wikimedia projects

Phabricator tasks

T67117

Other details

Created: 01:44, 3 August 2024
Last updated: 23:30, 10 October 2025
Author: Pauliesnug (talk)

Voting

This wish currently has 4 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish

Support Pppery (talk) 16:28, 10 October 2025

Support especially Page Previews for Wikipedia links on Commons; there are also some pages in userspace because drafts get deleted so quickly so to clarify it would be useful for these, not the user:username pages Prototyperspective (talk) 23:40, 10 October 2025

Support Iniquity (talk) 19:13, 16 November 2025

Support Jmabel (talk) 00:57, 5 December 2025