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,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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