robchur wrote:

I don't like the idea of a popup in the manner described, but I do like the idea
overall. Since the software identifies pages transcluded the {{disambig}}
template as disambiguation pages, it's not too awkward in terms of coding when
to do these checks. Probably the most difficult parts would be actually trapping
the user's moving to another page, and editing the actual link - think needle
and haystack.

jasonspiro4 wrote:

Doesn't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups already
do this through the use of custom CSS?

lupin.wp wrote:

No, navigation popups have a disambiguation feature but it requires more effort
to operate than this idea. (And it's mainly javascript, not CSS).

If this does get implemented, it'd need a highly unobtrusive UI, or a user
option to keep it out of the way by default. Most readers won't want to see this
feature I believe.

jasonspiro4 wrote:

Rob: What if all links to disambig pages actually pointed to
index.php?title=blahblahblah&surroundingtext=whatever_the_text_surrounding_the_[[link]]_is

Also, we could make this a pref that automatically gets enabled when your
editcount hits 5.

Would a small IFRAME at the top of the page be unobtrusive enough?

I think this is waaaay too obtrusive in the functioning of the wiki.
Strong inclination towards WONTFIX.

jasonspiro4 wrote:

Do you mean the coding effort would be better spent elsewhere?

Or do you mean the UI would be annoying? We can leave this disabled except for
people who enable it.

speedbump0619 wrote:

If this is implemented at all (which it probably shouldn't be, due to complexity) I'd go for something completely automated. Record the second click destination from the disambig link. Once enough (configurable, maybe 10-20 default) *unique* click-throughs occurred and they resulted in a high correlation to one target page (configurable, maybe 80-90% default) the link could automatically be changed to direct toward the selected page. It would be nice if it was treated as a redirect from the disambiguation page, but that's even more complexity.

This (as with some of the other disambiguation requests) would require a method to intentionally link to the disambiguation page without the auto-disambiguation behavior.

jasonspiro4 wrote:

I have just filed related bug 12742: "Collect enwiki clickstream data (we could use it to automatically fix links to disambiguation pages and more)".

Going ahead and WONTFIXing this per comments #5 and #7. Could make a good userscript or Gadget, but I can't see this as going in core.