On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Jérémie Roquet arkanosis@gmail.com wrote:
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?
Yes You can check this bug for example for status updates on that: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40358
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?
Can you please add a note about that to the above bug so we can keep this in mind? Thanks!
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,
Cheers Lydia