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The section "Multilingual links and QR codes" discusses using https://qrpedia.org/ to created multilingual links. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat, if changed to https://en.qrwp.org/Cat, will be redirected in a french browser to https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat. But this goes to the language's mobile website. Is there any way to get a multilingual link that will go to the desktop site? -Thunderforge (talk) 17:27, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How to add a new link in the sidebar, when there is no "Edit links" link?

For example, in this "Talk" page in the sidebar under "Language" there is no "Edit links" link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexandre.rozanov (talk • contribs) 11:03, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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2404:0:823A:F8AB:FA30:D57B:294D:7409 (talk) 08:46, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cannolis (talk) 09:10, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Though point #1 says it is "best practice", is anything wrong with preferring to use point #5 (or even #6), especially if you don't like redlinks showing up? -- Carlobunnie (talk) 19:44, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Red links are not evil. Using the methods shown in #5 or #6 will confuse some readers clicking on those links, and they negate the benefits of red links. IMHO, those points ought to be removed from this guideline. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:07, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This situation is as good a reason to have a red link as any. Unless the article in the other language is bad but it hasn't been deleted because it's been overlooked by patrollers, the fact that another language's Wikipedia carries on article on the subject coupled with the fact that an editor here finds the information worth linking to even though it isn't in English is as good a reason as any to want to flag the nonexistence of an article in English and encourage the creation of one. Largoplazo (talk) 02:17, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]