Hello everyone,
Some people start worrying about the fact that updates to wikidata items would not show up as changes of the Wikipedia articles that use them in their Wikipedia watchlists. Any idea of what can be done to allow regular Wikipedians to follow the changes in Wikidata that affect the articles they are watching without having to maintain and check an additional watchlist on an other wiki?
Also, some people are used to follow changes to articles in a given category (on the French Wikipedia, we have thematic portals on every single article, so many people use the categories associated with the portals to follow the recent changes instead of their own watchlists). Will they still be able to do that if some content is moved to Wikidata?
Amir Elisha Aharoni asked pretty much the same question back in August in a thread entitled “watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki”. He suggested that “The most practical way to solve this is to show that some piece of data that affects a Wikipedia article in the watchlist, as if it is a change in the article itself.” but didn't get any answer on that point.
Best regards,