On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Mahmoud Hashemi
<mahmoudrhashemi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure exactly what conditions trigger that
flag, but I'm pretty sure
the reason you're seeing so many rctype="external" edits is that interwiki
links (usually links to the article in other languages), are now provided by
Wikidata.
That's right. When a change on Wikidata is made, it injects these
rctype="external" entries into the local wiki so that the Wikidata
changes can show up in the local Special:RecentChanges and
Special:Watchlist.
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Brad Jorsch
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation