Increase interwiki discoverability on redlinks
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	Coskunozmen
	Oct 18 2023, 10:55 PM

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User story

As a multilingual reader, when I encounter a redlink, I want to easily see if the page exists on a wiki in another language that I know.

As a non-multilingual reader, when I encounter a redlink, I want to easily see if the page exists on at least one wiki, so that I might be able to use Google Translate/DeepL, etc.

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@Coskunozmen suggested implementing this through the language switcher.
Many wikis such as the English Wikipedia use the interlanguage link template to provide links inline to the highest-quality article available in another language. A bot removes the template when the article is created locally. The display of interlanguage links could perhaps be automated through a gadget.

Related Objects

Mentioned Here: T359072: MinT for Wiki Readers MVP
T212211: Associate red links on Wikibase client wikis with items in the Wikibase repo

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Coskunozmen created this task.Oct 18 2023, 10:55 PM

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Frostly renamed this task from Language selection dropdown menu from content creating form page. to Increase interwiki discoverability on redlinks.Oct 19 2023, 4:32 AM

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Frostly updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 19 2023, 4:38 AM

Currently the language team is exploring the use of machine translation to support reading contents form other languages (T359072). It may be interesting to explore how user interacting with a red link can surface options to create a new article(current behaviour) as well as accessing a machine translated version form other languages (a workflow which allows to also check the contents in those languages as well as transitioning to contribute a new article as better translation).

@Coskunozmen suggested implementing this through the language switcher.

It is not clear to me how the language selector can help with this. It would eb great to hear more detials on the idea.

Pginer-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.May 8 2024, 11:13 AM

Pginer-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Product integration on the MinT board.

Bugreporter merged a task: T370844: When a Wikipedia article does not exist in a language, still be able to see other versions that exist.Jul 24 2024, 9:25 AM

Bugreporter added a subscriber: Lena.

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