Hello all,

As announced last month, we’ve been working on mismatched reference https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatched_reference_notification_input, a new feature that alerts users when editing a value without changing the existing attached reference. This feature has been tested over the past month. Based on the positive feedback we received, we are now able to move forward and enable the feature on wikidata.org. This will take place this week, in two different steps:

- Today around 13:00 UTC, you will be able to see a notification (similar to the constraint ones) after saving an edit - On Thursday, February 6th, we will also enable a button that will allow you to hide the notification if you think that the reference is not mismatched

Please note that for now, the feature is not persistent: the editor who made the change will see it appear when they saved their edit, but if they reload the page, the notification will be gone. Other users also won’t be able to see it. We are considering adding this persistency feature in the future.

If you want to give feedback about the feature, feel free to use this talk page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Mismatched_reference_notification_input. If you want to report an issue directly on Phabricator, feel free to use this form https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/43/?projects=wikidata_tainted_references,wikidata.

Cheers,