Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:54 UTC
Make disambig tags that work like otherlanguages links - listed at the top of the sidebar. Serves to standardise disambiguation, where excessive use of toplevel notes often does not work.
Can you provide some more information, such as examples? At the moment, I read the request, and I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for. You need to understand that, when posting feature requests, we need sufficient information to work on, otherwise we can't understand them, and have no choice but to close them.
Seems that he is requesting a way to add links to disambiguation pages on the sidebar, since he does not like the current method of linking to such pages at the top of an article.
I'm inclined to WONTFIX; seems to me that such links would rarely be seen or used. If they're put there it's to be visible, so the related subjects can be found from someone who ends up at the 'obvious' page by a name search.
He probably thinks of something similar to the CATEGORY name space. Then each of Article: "Pot (for Cooking)" Article: "Pot (Coffe or Tea)" Article: "Pot (to be Smoked)" Article: "Pot (a Large Vessel)" could have a [[Disambig:Pot]] near its end which links all those together such that: Page: "Disambig:Pot" lists them all much the same as Category: pages do, [[:Disambig:Pot]] displays a link to that page, {{:Disambig:Pot}} includes its content inline, and finally - that is new - a group of links appears in the side bar (unlike Category, but much like Language Interwike Links) that says something like: " Other possible meanings of pot: Pot (for Cooking) Pot (Coffe or Tea) Pot (to be Smoked) Pot (a Large Vessel)" Leaving out or geying out the link to the page acually being displayed. (What if lots of unwieldy long words, or sentences, need to be shown? Can it ruin the layout?) Wether or not the Disambig: name space would allow text to be placed on its pages as the Category: name space does, is up to you. Btw. I think all of this but the side bar placement can easily be had with a Template: {{Diambiguation_of|Pot|ShowOrHide}} which [[Category:Disambiguation of "{{{1}}}"]] and optional inclusion of {{:Category:Disambiguation of "{{{1}}}"}} depending on {{{2}}}, i.e. ShowOrHide, and an Article: "Pot" #REDIRECT [[Category:Disambiguation of "Pot"]] I'm not proposing this, nor am I against it, just casually passing by and doing some guesswork, so it seems. :-)
Yes, and any disambiguation would take priority over interlanguage links. Another solution would be to show {{otheruses}} tags (ie. generic disambiguation notes) as special standard "disambiguation" links in the title bar itself - floated to the right (or left on RTL wikis). Something like: FOO____________________(disamgibuation) wikipedia...
what a daft idea.
