When I try to add link to "Note" on de.wikipedia in VE, I get a list of suggestions with titles starting with "Note". The first entry is a disambiguation page. It would be nice to have (some of) the links from that page also in the suggestion list, as it isn't unlikely that I want to link one of these pages. Not all of them start with "Note", so they won't turn up on a normal prefix search.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T145622 When link suggestions contain a disambiguation page, also show pages linked on that page | |||
| Open | None | T161349 Provide a structured way to represent disambiguation pages and give API responses |
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We don't know which of the links on the disambiguation page are links to alternative concepts and which are just links for context.
For example:
| John Smith can refer to: |
| * John A. Smith, the British diplomat |
| * John B. Smith, the Irish sailor |
| * John C. Smith, the German harpsichordist |
Unless/until disambiguation pages are replaced with structured content I'm not sure this would be remotely possible, sorry.
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The context is linked only rarely, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith as example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Page_style says: "Each bulleted entry should have a navigable (blue) link, normally as the entry itself [...], or in the description if the entry is red-linked or unlinked. Rarely should a bulleted entry have more than one navigable link." There are similar rules in other languages, so most of the links on a disambiguation page should be relevant.
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Following T285510, disambiguation pages are no longer the first result in the link search. Analysis done at T289534#7309057 suggests VE is now rarely the culprit when disambig links are added, so this task may not be necessary.
However Community-Tech is planning on a similar solution for wikitext editors, see T285508.