Just make the link to the disambiguation page, if there is one? Otherwise, make it a special link that doesn't go anywhere directly, but uses some javascript/CSS to raise a dialog when clicked, that gives you the different choices?
When a search term matches a tag, and none of the tagged pages have a clear "majority probability" of being correct, it would display a list of all pages with the tag, in order of popularity.
> Just make the link to the disambiguation page, if there is one? Otherwise, make it a special link that doesn't go anywhere directly, but uses some javascript/CSS to raise a dialog when clicked, that gives you the different choices?
Both of these things would be amazingly annoying to the majority of Wikipedia users.
I'm only talking about auto-generated links that can't be clearly disambiguated by the system. At worst, the experience wouldn't be any worse than it is today.
Sure, and when humans create links, they should continue to create them just like they do not. I'm picturing an "auto linkifier" that creates links that no human has gotten around to creating yet.
Whether or not something like that would be a net win for Wikipedia is up for debate I guess. That said, I think they already do have a bot that can do at least a limited amount of auto-linkification, but I can't swear to it.
I guess an added bonus of what you're suggesting is that the correct link could be crowdsourced; if the system kept track of which of the options users clicked on, it could figure out pretty quickly which one is correct.
