Hi,
I'm sending this email to request your help with...
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207648
We don't want non-confirmed users to see links from semiprotected Wikipedia articles to their corresponding Wikidata items. This is a well-known source of vandalism (and bad press) that is seriously affecting Wikidata and some Wikipedias.
As Lydia describes on T205783,
"When contentious topics show up in the news vandalism on the Wikipedia articles related to it usually shows up pretty quickly. The article then might be protected for some time in order to prevent more vandalism. A pattern we are seeing now is that people then move over to Wikidata and continue their vandalism there. (This might then in turn lead to vandalism showing up in the article anyway if it uses the data.) This especially happens when an infobox has "edit on Wikidata" links or something similar. We need to find a way to make this attack vector less of a problem."
We don't want to hide these links from everyone, just from non-confirmed users. We could write CSS rules for certain user groups, but this can bring undesired side effects like giving all users the possiblity of hiding arbitrary content (e.g., vandalism) from other users who should be able to see it.
We also have `mw.title.protectionLevels["edit"]` in Lua, but this option is documented as "expensive" and I can't guess what its impact could be if applied on a large scale.
Any action or suggestion on how to achieve this is more than welcome.
Thanks in advance!