Demo talk:San Francisco

How to deal with REDIRECTs in Chinese or other languages?
How to deal with REDIRECTs in Chinese or other languages? For example, how to identify the language in which any REDIRECT name is represented? I created three Simplified Chinese names/synonyms for San Francisco, i.e., "三藩市"‎, "圣弗朗西斯科" and "旧金山". Among them, the last one should be the preferred name in Simplified Chinese and the other two are also used by many people. How could I specify it as the preferred Simplified Chinese name for San Francisco? Thanks. --Linforest 12:44, 25 March 2012 (CEST)
 * You would have to annotate the page with the redirect in a way that you may query for the information, e.g. setting the language and if it is the preferred redirect. However redirects are not meant to contain information other than the redirect itself and I do not even know if it would work. Even if you could do the annotation it will not help with your problem. Redirects are just meant to ease finding the requested page. You cannot control what people are typing. :) So all redirects point to the preferred page and are regarded as equivalents. The nice thing is that SMW evaluates the redirects to a page unless you disable it but again it cannot evaluate its importance. What makes things even more difficult on this wiki is that it contains plurilingual contents. Cutting a long story short: Why do you need to mark one redirect as the preferred one? Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; 01:50, 27 March 2012 (CEST)
 * Heiya kgh. So many thanks for your explanation in details.  When I post these questions, I was just thinking about how to add Simplified Chinese names/synonyms and specifiy one preferred among them for the example page San Francisco without creating a corresponding page in Chinese.  Cheers --Linforest 10:43, 27 March 2012 (CEST)
 * Ah I understand. No that is not possible since all redirects are equivalent. Since all of them point to the English version it really depends on the name the user uses. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; 01:18, 29 March 2012 (CEST)