Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Wikidata/Link Wikipedia redirects to Wikidata items

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Link Wikipedia redirects to Wikidata items

  • Problem: Wikipedia redirects cannot be linked to Wikidata items
  • Who would benefit: Mainly Wikidata users seeking relevant Wikipedia text
  • Proposed solution: In the Wikidata UI, allow Wikipedia redirects to be linked to items
  • More comments: Some Wikipedia redirects already link to Wikidata items. For example, en:517 BC correctly links to d:Q715545. However, Wikidata's UI prevents the creation of such useful links. To create it, one must first make a "bad" edit to Wikipedia, replacing the redirect by a dummy article, then link to that "article" in Wikidata, then self-revert on Wikipedia to restore the redirect.
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Certes (talk) 02:14, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I was going to say that I proposed this already here: Community_Wishlist_Survey_2015/Wikidata, but I misread your problem, which is also known as the "Bonnie and Clyde problem", and is explained in detail at d:Help:Handling sitelinks overlapping multiple items. My proposal wasn't to change Wikidata UI, but to change the Wikipedia UI in the way redirects are implemented on the Wikipedia side, so instead of #REDIRECT [[Target]] you would see something like #REDIRECT [[d:Qid|Target]] where the Qid is optional for the redirect (most redirects for Q5 items are alternate spellings and don't need any alternate than the direct local target). Your work-around to create it is a known kludge to get around the Bonnie & Clyde problem which I delete when I see them because they could be created by people like you or because articles get deleted sometimes. I delete them because they gum up my Sparql results. Jane023 (talk) 11:18, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Editors create these links to help Wikidata. If you are deleting them because they are unwelcome, just let us know, and we'll stop creating them and I'll withdraw (or at least not support) this proposal. Certes (talk) 21:45, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Jane023: Once this is implemented, it should be possible to exclude redirects from Sparql results, as they will have an associated badge (See T235420). So instead of having a kludge that messes up query results (as you do now), you would have a proper implementation that alleviates your problem. In other words, you would be able to choose whether or not to include redirects in query results, which you can't do currently, AFAIK. Kaldari (talk) 03:16, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Does this finally mean that an English language Wikipedia entry (c|w)ould show multiple Inter-wikilinks (the version created from Wikidata that is) from another language. Shyamal (talk) 08:17, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Shyamal: This would make most manual Inter-Wikilinks unnecessary. There are still some cases where individual Wikipedia's have policies that make certain redirects not welcome. ChristianKl11:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@ChristianKl: - I was not clear, not manual interwikis of course - but now that a language A Wikipedia entry may be covered by two entries in language B (linked via two Wikidata items), how does the Wikipedia entry guide a reader from language A to two possible page in B (I am assuming the side bar will ideally have multiple targets under language B when one sees the language A entry). Shyamal (here is a case in question - the Korean entry at https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%99%EA%B3%A8%ED%95%B4%EB%A9%B4%EB%AA%A9 d:Q139079 does not have a interlanguage to the English version or vice versa because the English entry is covered under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosclerophorida d:Q13140211 - adding the redirect in Wikidata is one aspect, but how would it get interpreted on the Wikipedia sidebar? I presume the priority would be to be able to guide the ease of user navigation between KO and EN) (talk) 11:53, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This feature alone doesn't provide a way to guide users from A to two possible B (B1 and B2. A Wikipedia that hosts B1 and B2 and that wants that people from A can come to B could create a bot that automatically creates pages that say "A is covered in B1 and B2" and then add a sitelink from the A to that new page.
Whether or not bots that create such pages are seen as desirable by individual Wikipedia communities will be seen. In case they aren't it's also possible to create a gadget that has some virutal form of those B1 or B2-pages.
This feature will mean that the data that a bot that creates those B1 or B2-pages or a gadget would need exist. ChristianKl12:48, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This feature would help us to guide readers from language B to language A (e.g. from article nl:Bonnie Parker to redirect en:Bonnie Parker which targets the section en:Bonnie and Clyde#Bonnie Parker). It neither helps nor hinders the 1→many link from language A to language B. Certes (talk) 13:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Some canvassing happened at d:Wikidata:Project_chat#Finally_fixing_the_Bonnie_and_Clyde_problem. I still oppose this change because it would break the current data model in regard to uniqueness. I'm sure more people Oppose Oppose this change, but I guess these pages are just to cheer on proposals. Multichill (talk) 22:37, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Multichill: the uniqueness of the data model gets defined via the notability policy and the sitelinks to redirects change nothing about notability. ChristianKl01:16, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Multichill: Isn't that a data model that very much needs to be broken? What is the down side of breaking it? Kaldari (talk) 20:17, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There was an RFC in 2018 with majority support for allowing links to redirects, but action on the phab ticket to improve the UI stalled, as the devs wanted to consider other options despite consensus. Solution involves badging the sitelinks to redirects so that they can be filtered in queries (as Kaldari noted above), and templating the redirect pages to flag them as intentional (the latter practice is already happening on English Wikipedia). Sorry I don't have the links on hand but will try to find them. Pelagic (talk) 17:33, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Here is the RFC I was thinking of: d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata. —Pelagic (talk) 18:27, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
On the data abstraction: redirect pages are still mediawiki pages, and they are in the main namespace, just like articles. This URI https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bonnie_Parker&redirect=no is still "schema:about" Bonnie Parker, even though its content is an instruction to visit the section of another page. Traditional printed encyclopaedias have see entries in their indices for a reason. What I hope for is, when adding a sitelink in the UI and selecting a redirect, to get the choice to either add the redirect itself (where it links to a section or is semantically distinct from its target) or the redirect-target (redirect for misspelling or alternate name). This URI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde#Bonnie_Parker is also schema:about Bonnie Parker. If you don't want to allow sitelinks to redirects, then allow them to article sections. In both cases you are stretching the expectation that sitelinks point to articles: either extend it in one direction to include main-namespace non-article pages, or in the other direction to include sections of articles. Either way the reader should be able to navigate from an article in one language to a section of an article in another language, where the former and latter are both about the same subject. We already have sitelinks to non-mainspace non-article pages, even though w:en:WP:Village Pump isn't about d:Q16503, it's an instance of Q16503. The primary point of sitelinks isn't the RDF or the semantics, it's to allow users to move between related content. Pelagic (talk) 18:19, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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