I am basing my concerns on my own experience editing Wikidata as well as two separate workshops where Wikimedia NYC Wikipedia editors were taught and edited Wikidata and discussed end-user challenges both times.
I disagree that Wikidata is easier to edit than Wiki Markup or Visual Editor. The null responses when trying to save, those alone, if you are not using the controlled expected vocabularies presents huge barriers to editing. Frankly, manual editing takes forever. Sorry totally disagree.
Deep links is well and good but how about user documentation and making it a seamless experience for Wikipedia editors -- not just for Wikidata editors? I think you are missing the point of my concerns here. And to make such a significant change and implement it with no regard for Wikipedia editors, the whole thing seems very non-ideal and problematic. And biased towards Wikidata.
There seems to be a lack of focus on the casual Wikipedia editor and their needs. The focus is on Wikidata, which is fine if you are doing Wikidata editing or running queries, I guess. But for this to be interoperable between Wikipedia and Wikidata, the usability for an end-user is an issue. And more importantly a barrier.
Speaking of: Where's the user documentation for Authority Control? Have you tried to update and/or add Authority Control on Wikidata manually? It is clunky and difficult and you need to know Wikidata to do it. I keep whinging and moaning enough about it maybe I'll try to do a rapid grant to fund a project so I can carve out time to create something finally.
For the Infobox template it's even more elements, and it's unclear to me how an Infobox populates on Wikidata.
And are all Infobox templates on Wikipedia considered here? Are all elements going to translate, exhaustively?
I had the same concern with the RefToolbar Cite templates, which was part of the bibliographic metadata focus at WikiCite 2016 recently. What is the point of Wikipedia editors using these great templates in Wikipedia when there is no effort by Wikidata to create pathways and integrate existing Wikipedia templates into the semantics of Wikidata? I find this maddening. And a big problem.
- Erika