There isn't reason to celebrate, unfortunately.

The blog post mentions only Wikipedia links. And, in fact, doing a search on test.viaf.org, you will get only records containing links to Wikipedia.

See for example the JSON formated record for Jane Austen:

http://rdap02pxdu.dev.oclc.org:8080/viaf/102333412/justlinks.json

Wikidata entry for Jane Austen points also to 1 Wikibooks page, 22 Wikiquote pages, & Wikisource pages and 1 Wikimedia Commons page.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36322

I'm not particularly surprised on this, since the Wikimedia Foundation never does nothing to help "sister" projects (in fact, only puts dozens of barriers to allow/approve changes in MediaWiki for those and, recently, started to put barriers to approve local chapters actions on non-Wikipedias wikis, as we can see on some past messages on this list).

[[User:555]]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:18 PM, billinghurst <billinghurstwiki@gmail.com> wrote:

From the Wikidata weekly newsletter, I was led to the VIAF blog
post[1] which talks about how VIAF is going to re-orientate their
linking from English Wikipedia to Wikidata. This should have a
positive effect for the Wikisources in general, and non-English WSes
especially, in making more overt the authors that you have in your
wikis.

We should also be aware of the issue that (more?) people will arrive
at our pages directly via WD.

[http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/03/moving-to-wikidata.html]

Regards, Andrew
PS. Some of the more WD-aligned personnel will presumably already know this.

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