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translating a link that exists in the source language but not in the target language should create an interwiki redlink
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Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
translating a link that exists in the source language but not in the target language should create an interwiki redlink if the target wiki has that template.

rather than [[missing link]] it becomes [[missing link]][tg].

e.g. on the english wiki:
{{ill|Guilde française des scénaristes|fr|Guilde française des scénaristes}}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Interlanguage_link

Use case(s)
You are translating a page from a source language to a target language, but the target language doesn't have certain linked subject yet.

Benefits :
Like regular red links, they encourage expansion, but they also point out where one could get quality references and subject material as well, for free.

It also encourages more translation.

It also ensures that the redlink refers to the correct subject/helps reviewers check the translation is correct.
With technical term translation, there such doubts can arise quite a lot.

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it was also suggested in the dutch wiki, that the template somehow links to wiki data, rather than list 1 or all of the languages that have that page.

it just being the country code of where you translated from and no other also seems fine to me.

Pginer-WMF subscribed.

Our main focus is on improvements for the translation experience that can be applied to any language.
The interlanguage links template is a specific template (available in 94 languages for Wikipedia ), and making the general behaviour of the tool to depend on it does not make much sense in the current context where cross-language support for templates is not ideal.

A more generic solution would be preferred. if technically viable. For example, tagging in some way the missing links with the Wikidata Id, so that other tools could be aware of which concept the missing link is referring to.