Hey folks :)

As announced last week we just deployed a number of new features. Those are:

* Wikinews is now able to manage its sitelinks via Wikidata.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikinews for
questions/coordination/...
* Wikidata is now also its own client. This means you can for example
add a sitelink to Wikidata:Help to the item for all main help pages.
You are able to make use of the data in items on other pages in
Wikidata with Lua. (Arbitrary access has been enabled for Wikidata
for this but when data in an item changes we will not be able to purge
the page using the data yet.)
* Sitelinks for projects with just one sitelink in the group (like
Commons, Wikidata and in the future Meta for example) are now grouped
together in one sitelink group.
* Badges for good and featured articles can be stored on Wikidata
right next to the sitelink. We have badges for featured and good
articles. More can be added on request later. Thanks to Bene* and
lazowik for this feature.
* Redirects between items can be created. When two items are merged
one of them can be turned into a redirect. This way our identifiers
can be considered much more stable by 3rd parties for example. It also
makes it unnecessary to delete duplicate items. This will reduce the
workload of our admins considerably.
* We have the new datatype monolingual text. This allows you to make
statements with a string and an associated language.

Known issues/limitations:
* Redirects can so far only be created via the API
* Arbitrary access on Wikidata to the data on Wikidata itself is only
possible via Lua. The parser function still needs to be adapted.
* Badges can not yet be shown on the Wikipedias etc. This will follow next week.
* Diffs for badges changes have a link to a wrong target
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69758)


Cheers
Lydia

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