Hi,
Lydia mentioned in her summary a major discussion about Wikidata in
the Hebrew Wikipedia. The discussion was in Hebrew of course, so I'll
bring a little summary of it.
Eleven people supported the installation of Wikidata. Nobody objected \o/
Despite the wide support, some issues and questions were raised:
1. How is the coordination with interwiki links bot operators progressing?
Will the bots be smart enough not to do anything to articles that are
already listed in the repository and have the correct links displayed?
Will the bots be smart enough to update the repo in the transition
period, when some Wikipedias have Wikidata and some don't?
Will the bots be smart enough not to do anything with articles that
have interwiki conflicts (multiple links, non-1-to-1 linking etc.)?
2. What are the numbers after the Q in the titles in the repo site? -
I replied that they are just sequential identifiers without any
additional meaning. Maybe it can be added to the FAQ.
3. Several people complained about instability in the links editing
pages in the repo: They saw messages about network problems when they
tried to edit links. I experienced this a couple of times, too. I also
saw a complete crash with a "memory full" error once.
4. Somebody noticed that the testing sites don't support unified
accounts (CentralAuth). The production system will, right?
5. Somebody complained that it's too easy to remove a link from a repo
- clicking the "remove" link is enough. I mentioned it in a bug
report:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40200
6. And this is probably the biggest issue: The workflow for adding an
interlanguage link is cumbersome and in some cases the interface
elements are undiscoverable.
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