Including information from Wikidata in a page is not so different from transcluding a template. So in theory, protecting a page from vandalism through Wikidata should be similar to cascading protection, which exists in core and auto-protects images and transcluded templates on a page. In fact, maybe cascading protection should simply apply to transcluded items.
Of course, it's more difficult to extend cascading protection to Wikidata because Wikidata is a different wiki (even Commons images are not included in cascading protection last time I checked). Nevertheless, it should be a goal.
And maybe—just maybe—getting blocked on one wiki could make one automatically blocked on wikis that are common repositories, such as Commons and Wikidata (and perhaps Meta), although this should be reversible.
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בתאריך יום ג׳, 30 באוק׳ 2018 ב-0:06 מאת Daniel Kinzler < dkinzler@wikimedia.org>:
Am 29.10.18 um 7:29 nachm. schrieb Pine W:
I'm hesitant to support hiding information from readers, including links
to
Wikidata. As an alternative to hiding information, could articles that
are
semi-protected on Wikipedia (I assume that this refers to ENWP, but
perhaps
it refers to other languages also) automatically have semi-protection applied to the relevant items on Wikidata?
Does this only apply to the "connected" data item, or all data items used? Note that some items are used on a *lot* of pages, and would end up always protected. Maybe that'S good, if they are used so much, don't know. It would be hard to see on Wikidata why they are protected, though. Also, I cannot think of an efficient way to manage this information in the database.
Also, would you also want this the other way around? If the data item is protected, the respective page on all wikis should be automatically protected?
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