Red links on steroids

Hoi,

Red links are part of the MediaWiki architecture. They indicate that a
subject has not been covered in an article. Consequently, they are
functional and, a good thing to have.

When you link to a "disambiguation page", there is a chance that there is a
reference to the missing subject, there is however no guarantee. When you
are looking for a given subject, chances are that Wikidata does have an
item for the missing article.

Magnus Manske created a new template on the en.wp named "Redwd" [1]. It
does do two things, it leaves the red link red and, it refers to both
Wikidata and the Reasonator. I blogged about it [2] and Jane used it on a
disambiguation page [3].

The template is relatively simple and it can easily be copied to any other
Wikipedia that is interested in this functionality. As it is the first
iteration of this functionality, I am sure that there will be people who
will provide us with improvements to what is already on offer.

I want to thank Magnus for the code and Multichill for the documentation.
Thanks,
      GerardM

PS, the disambiguation by Reasonator will show all items that fit a
criterium [4]



[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Redwd
[2]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/mark-davis-wrote-shama-lama-ding-dong.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koekkoek
[4] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?find=Koekkoek
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