Talk:Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects/AddIssue

Submitted Issues

• Integrate Lexemes to Wiktionary - submitted by User:Сергій_Липко

• Wikidata Across Projects - submitted by Kittycataclysm

• Comment from en.wikiquote - submitted by 27.55.73.115

• Automated links to Wikipedia - submitted by — Alexis Jazz

• Make Labels, Aliases and monolingual text linked to Lemmas - sumitted by [[d:User:5628785a|5628785a

• Request re. Commons descriptions - submitted by JMK

Example Submission

Description of issue

In this section, I describe the problem, such as how it interrupts or hinders my workflow(s).
I may have ideas on how Wikidata could help. If I know, I can enter details on what functionality or technical details are required to make the idea a reality.
If the issue or idea has previously been discussed within the community, I would mention that here with any relevant links to the discussion / talk / project pages.
If I have multiple issues, or this issue is one of a chain of related issues, I remember to submit them separately and link them with Wikitext.

Affected Wikimedia Project(s)

This example affects projects: Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource.

Phabricator Ticket

I can put here the link to Phabricator ticket(s) that involve this topic:
T123456 - (Title / Summary of the ticket)

Submitted By

--Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:51, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Improve error message for "Interlanguage links for redirects"

Description of issue

Confusing UI and error message for editing Wikidata interlanguage links towards redirects when the destination of that redirect already has another wikidata entry.

Please improve the shown error message as suggested below.

Currently this error message is unintuitive and confusing because it doesn't mention anything about the actual page a user tried to add nor the fact that this message isn't a glitch/error but intentionally talking about the target of the redirect.

It could be improved by either separating it from the error message that is shown when a user tries to add a page that already is attached to another wikidata object directly OR by adding a 3rd bullet point between these two like:

In case you're trying to link towards a redirected page, see en:Wikipedia:Wikidata#Interlanguage_links_for_redirects for details on how to mark this as intentional and bypass this warning.

Furthermore I'd also like to point out that the current button for adding these labels is everything but obvious.

The bottom green arrow points to the badge selector icon which can be used to add badges. The top red arrow points to the intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) badge.

Therefore would it be possible to make it more obvious? As currently it resembles more a visual indicator for the wiki page title entry field as opposed to a clickable button. Like e.g. by labeling it or something?

Affected Wikimedia Project(s)

Wikipedia

Submitted By

Agowa (talk) 07:09, 28 September 2025 (UTC)