We lack several maintenance scripts for the clients, that is human readable special pages with reports on which pages lacks special treatment. In no particular order we need some way to identify unconnected pages in general (the present one does not work [1]), we need some way to identify pages that are unconnected but has some language links, we need to identify items that are used in some language and lacks labels (almost like [2],but on the client and for items that are somehow connected to pages on the client), and we need to identify items that lacks specific claims and the client pages use a specific template.
There are probably more such maintenance pages, these are those that are most urgent. Now users start to create categories to hack around the missing maintenance pages, which create a bunch of categories.[3] At Norwegian Bokmål there are just a few scripts that utilize data from Wikidata, still the number of categories starts to grow large.
For us at the "receiving end" this is a show stopper. We can't convince the users that this is a positive addition to the pages without the maintenance scripts, because them we more or less are in the blind when we try to fix errors. We can't use random pages to try to prod the pages to find something that is wrong, we must be able to search for the errors and fix them.
This summer we (nowiki) have added about ten (10) properties to the infobokses, some with scripts and some with the property parser function. Most of my time I have not been coding, and I have not been fixing errors. I have been trying to explain to the community why Wikidata is a good idea. At one point the changes was even reverted because someone disagree with what we had done. The whole thing basically revolves around "my article got an Q-id in the infobox and I don't know how to fix it". We know how to fix it, and I have explained that to the editors at nowiki several times. They still don't get it, so we need some way to fix it, and we don't have maintenance scripts to do it.
Right now we don't need more wild ideas that will swamp the development for months and years to come, we need maintenance scripts, and we need them now!
[1] https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spesial:UnconnectedPages [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel [3] https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spesial:Prefiksindeks/Kategori:Artikler_hvor
John Erling Blad /jeblad