Hi,

Thanks for sharing your concerns. Here's the list of actions that we thought about, we're of course open to suggestions.

- the extension is checking if the user is blocked globally, on the local Wikipedia or on Wikidata. For these users, the Bridge is not shown.

- the feature adds a tag on Wikidata, which will allow the community to monitor edits coming from the Bridge in particular

- the Bridge feature will be rolled-out slowly and carefully, one Wikipedia after the other, so we can monitor its effect, learn and adapt if necessary (restricting to autoconfirmed users on Wikidata could be an option)

- the first version includes the ability to edit only one datatype (string), more datatypes will come one after the other, which limits the possibility to mass-vandalism

- in case of emergency, the Bridge feature can be turned off one or several Wikipedias easily and quickly, without causing incidents on the existing infoboxes

I hope that helps!

Cheers, Léa

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 14:37, Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 2:24 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com> wrote:

I have just one concern. The feature will bring more and more vandals, who are active in those Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects, directly to Wikidata through this feature. How will the Wikidata community deal with them effectively as the number of vandalism might increase manifold?

Regards,

Bodhisattwa 

Exactly, this is a serious problem for which we do not currently have a good solution. Perhaps we can limit the option to autoconfirmed users?

Best

Yaroslav

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 17:33 Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Hello all,

As you may know, in the past months, the Wikidata development team has been working on the first version of the Wikidata Bridge, the feature that will allow Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata content directly from their infoboxes on the Wikipedia interface.

The first version is about to be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia, the first Wikipedia community to try it, who’s been providing great enthusiasm and support towards the project. The deployment will take place on August 18th and we’ll carefully monitor the possible issues during the upcoming weeks.

The first version of the Bridge includes minimal features, such as editing string datatype values, displaying the existing Wikidata references, adapting the rank depending on the reason for the edit (fix or update), and redirecting to Wikidata for actions that are not yet possible with the Bridge. It is not the final version, many improvements will be made in the future, but we wanted to have a first version out as soon as possible, to see if it works for the editors and collect feedback.

On Wikidata, edits coming from the Bridge will be flagged with the tag Data Bridge. We also made sure to check the different levels of protections, so items that are protected on Wikidata cannot be edited from Wikipedia, and users who are blocked on Wikidata cannot edit from Wikipedia.

It’s an exciting step in the direction of more collaboration between Wikidata and Wikipedia editors, and we’re looking forward to welcoming more Wikipedia editors on Wikidata!

You can follow the progress of the feature on this documentation page and on the related talk page. If you have any questions or suggestions, let us know. Cheers,

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