Hello,
This is a significant change announcement about the way entity labels are
displayed in parsed edit summaries in API requests.
As a Wikidata editor, you may have noticed that links in edit summaries are
formatted using the label of the linked entity, for example, [[Property:P460]]:
[[Q112795079]] becomes “said to be the same as (P460)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P460>: Wikidata Sandbox 4
(Q112795079) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112795079>”. However, this is
disabled in API requests, initially done to fix a previous bug. This made
it difficult for edit summaries to be understood outside of
Wikidata.org,
especially when shown in tools.
To address this issue, we have fixed the original bug and will now enable
the display of entity labels in parsed edit summaries in API requests. API
requests that return edit summaries will now show formatted links with
entity labels, including action=query + prop=revisions +
rvprop=parsedcomment.
We have already deployed this change to Test Wikidata, where you can test
it now (example API request
<https://test.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=revisions&revids=636981&formatversion=2&rvprop=comment%7Cparsedcomment>).
We will deploy it to Wikidata on or shortly after May 18th.
We assume that users who analyze edit summaries to determine what changed
in an edit generally use the unparsed comment (e.g., /*
wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ [[Property:P460]]: [[Q112795079]]), which will
be unaffected.
Please let us know on this phabricator ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327062> if you have any questions or
concerns.
Cheers,
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
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