Hey :)
Guillaume just reminded me that I have not yet posted this here but
only on the village pump and Signpost. Sorry. I'll fix that now with
this email.
Later today (evening UTC) we'll deploy the first phase of Wikidata on
the English language Wikipedia. We've already deployed the first
phase on the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias and things there
went rather smoothly. We hope this is the case here too.
What is going to happen exactly?
* Language links in the sidebar will come from Wikidata if they exist there.
* Existing language links in the wiki text will continue to work and
overwrite links from Wikidata.
* For individual articles language links from Wikidata can be
supressed completely with the noexternallanglinks magic word.
* Changes on Wikidata that relate to articles on this Wikipedia will
show up in Recent Changes if the option is enabled by the user
* At the bottom of the language links list you will see a link to edit
the language links that leads you to the corresponding page on
Wikidata.
* You can see an example of how it works at
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
* The second phase of Wikidata (which is about Infoboxes was started
on Wikidata but can't yet be used on any Wikipedia. This will follow
later.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers
Lydia
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