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,
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Jérémie