Last modified: 2014-08-01 13:11:05 UTC
On the client, we need to include Wikidata changes (e.g. changing language links) in the action=history for articles.
Do we? After Wikidata was enabled on pl.wiki, I've heard users complaining about WD edits showing up on their watchlist, because – quoting – "it's an external project, not the Wikipedia, it's just clutter". I'm certain that the response to WD edits appearing in article histories would be extremely negative.
Changing language links is maybe not the best example, but a Wikidata edit that changes a value in the infobox should definitely be visible in the article history. The best would be if changes would only be visible for properties which are actually queried in the article, but I suppose that would break with more complex use cases like conditional templates and Lua. Maybe external changes affecting the article could be shown on a separate history tab/special page?
*** Bug 49211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 50503 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 59110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #2) > Changing language links is maybe not the best example > Maybe external changes affecting the article could be shown on a separate > history tab/special page? Especially when the page is removed from Wikidata item (thus all interwikis and the original Wikidata link dissappear from the Wikipedia page), the change and the lost interwikis should be findable through the history of the Wikipedia page and the lost relation should not disappear without any trace (as long as the Wikidata page is joined with the Wikipedia page, the history is available from Wikipedia page through the Wikidata link). The Wikidata logs can be filterable at the history page and users to have a simple swich of the filter (as they really can at the recent changes and watchlist). The property changes are relevant to the content of the Wikipedia page but they can be hardly displayed through "compare revisions" function. This problem is very similar to the long-time problem that changes of used templates are also not displayed at the history page and that the old versions are not able to reconstruct the contemporary content of the templates.
Bug 59690 - special case of lost Wikidata items.
