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Medvednikita (talkcontribs)

Hello!

Among many overlinking incidents this brings, there is one that is very common across many pages on ruwiki: in the bibliography section the tool suggest wikifying the city where the publisher resides (most commonly in ruwiki that is Moscow (Москва), lots of links, at least in the (rather small) selection of articles I encounter). Unfortunately, it is not obvious for newcomers that those links do not really add value (moreover, I myself am also more or less a newcomer and I am not sure, whether there is actually a consensus established against this behaviour, but at least it seems like there is none for it). It seems logical to stop this from happening.

One possible way would be to have an option of disabling this function for certain names of sections, configurable per-project-wise. This way we could, for example, disable it in bibliography section, this would have a negative implication (adding wikilinks to authors might be net positive), but it would stop this flood of links to cities.

Another possible way could be having a blacklist of articles, to which links should not send.

Medvednikita (talkcontribs)

Sorry, now I see that this is already discussed in T279519

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hello

Do you have some diffs I can use for documentation purposes? It would help to prioritize the work on Add a link, by having a better understanding of the context in which links have been applied.

Feel free to post them directly below this message, or to comment on the Phabricator task.

Thank you!

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