Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Miscellaneous/Mark red links to other WMF wikis

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Mark red links to other WMF wikis

Problem: Link to not existing page in the same wiki is marked red. But link to not existing page on Commons, Wikisource etc. is not red and there is only one way how to recognize it - click on it..

Who would benefit: All editors adding links to other wikis (like {{commonscat}}), readers, maintenace editors.

Proposed solution: Now exists script, which marks links to pages without Wikidata item. Maybe somethink like that would serve to this request. Another possibility is checking all these links during page rendering, usually there is not more than one or two per page. This link then can have eg. class="dead-wikisource-link" in HTML.

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Phabricator tickets:

Proposer: JAn Dudík (talk) 09:55, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translations: none yet

Discussion

It should be noted that they are also not "blue" (aka 'exists') links. They are light blue and indicate "external to this wiki". —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:29, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Doing this might be a performance concern, as each wiki linked to would require opening a separate database connection to that wiki's database. There might also be edge cases of pages that don't exist directly in the database but "exist" thanks to an extension, language variants, or something like that. And, of course, it would only work for local wikis unless you went one step worse and did an API query like third-party wikis do when using Commons images. Anomie (talk) 15:01, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This would probably require some kind of global links table, similar to how GlobalUsage works. Personally I doubt the benefits would be anywhere near the effort required. --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 00:15, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Dvorapa (talk) 09:27, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 21:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 04:58, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 10:16, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 20:01, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kusurija (talk) 22:18, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support - yona B. (D) 08:19, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support M11rtinb (talk) 11:01, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dromedar61 (talk) 21:03, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:15, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support CosmosAway (talk) 16:36, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Laurentius (talk) 20:44, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 20:49, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Xavi Dengra (MESSAGES) 23:15, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 11:24, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 12:23, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 14:55, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Termininja (talk) 17:07, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support enL3X1 ¡‹delayed reaction›¡ 16:40, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gryllida 00:56, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support as proposer JAn Dudík (talk) 09:25, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Therou (talk) 15:42, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pau Colominas (talk) 16:34, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Grüße vom Sänger ♫^(Reden) 20:54, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Even if this were just added as an optional gadget it would be helpful NessieVL (talk) 19:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Anthere (talk) 16:25, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support _• _• _hugarheimur 22:32, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support yes often in text links from commons to wikipedia could be dead but are not marked as such. --Jarekt (talk) 14:51, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support J 947 18:36, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --jdx ^Re: 19:54, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fano (talk) 11:45, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ruslik (talk) 18:17, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Haxpett (talk) 00:43, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Psychoslave (talk) 08:10, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Luchesar • T/C 13:54, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. More generally, we have a problematic case of links between two projects that become dead without notice. For instance, a Wikipedia article has a link to Wikisource like s:something, then this page is renamed to s:something else, then someone deletes redirect as it is not used on Wikisource, and a link from Wikipedia becomes dead. We should be able to track this at least within our projects — NickK (talk) 17:08, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]