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Author: emddudley

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From the duplicate report:

Some articles in smaller Wikipedias have more than one interwiki link as they cover more than one topic, whereas larger Wikipedias have an own article for each covered topic. In the current system there's no easy way of knowing which interwiki link leads to which topic.
I'd suggest either adding the the target article title to the interwiki link list or something like [[en:Title|Text]]

I'm filing a bug in response to a post on the English Village Pump (technical):

The problen arised in [[Hebrew Wikipedia]], but they couldn't answer, so I am trying here.
I was editing [[:he:בוש]], which conesponds to [[Bush]], but also [[Bosh]], [[Bausch]] etc. due to the nature of [[Hebrew]]. If I add (in Hebrew Wiki) [[:en:Bush]] and [[:en:Bosh]], I will get twice "English", on the sidebar. Is there a way to get a different result (such as "English-Bosh" , "English-Bush")? The question is probably also relevent for [[Arabic]] and similar languages. Thanks, [[User:DGtal|DGtal]] 17:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps it would be nice to add support for custom interlanguage link text, such
as [[en:Bush|English (Bush)]]? This might not be appropriate on Wikipedia, but
it could be handy for others downloading Mediawiki.

The only related bug I could find was #5231.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43671

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:11 PM
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jimmy.collins wrote:

*** Bug 6804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #0)

I was editing [[:he:בוש]], which conesponds to [[Bush]], but also [[Bosh]],
[[Bausch]] etc. due to the nature of [[Hebrew]]. If I add (in Hebrew Wiki)
[[:en:Bush]] and [[:en:Bosh]], I will get twice "English", on the sidebar. Is
there a way to get a different result (such as "English-Bosh" ,
"English-Bush")?
The question is probably also relevent for [[Arabic]] and similar languages.

Thanks, [[User:DGtal|DGtal]] 17:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps it would be nice to add support for custom interlanguage link text,
such
as [[en:Bush|English (Bush)]]? This might not be appropriate on Wikipedia,
but
it could be handy for others downloading Mediawiki.

Currently the request doesn't make sense for Wikipedia, because with Wikidata the second interlanguage link is ignored, see bug 43671. This bug was meant mainly for non-Wikipedia or even non-Wikimedia wikis but I'm not sure of the use case validity here...

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With no use case having come to the surface in almost 10 years, I think we have to close this as "Declined".