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If one copies a link to a Wikidata item and pastes it into a text field requiring a Wikidata item, the JS should accept it as directly being the item itself, not just the raw text to be used to help find the item. Acting on every copy-paste might slow performance a slight amount, but I think it would be worth it. The code getting the contents of the paste could look something very roughly like this:

$input.on("paste", function (e) {
    try {
        var oEvt = e.originalEvent, 
            href;
        if (oEvt.clipboardData && oEvt.clipboardData.getData) {
            var clp = oEvt.clipboardData.getData('text/html');
            href = $("<p>").html(clp).find("a").attr("href");
        } else if (document.queryCommandEnabled("paste")) {
            var $pasteBox = $('<p>').attr("contenteditable", "true").insertBefore( $input ).focus();
            document.execCommand("paste");
            href = $pasteBox.find("a").attr("href");
            $pasteBox.remove();
        }
        var itemId = href && href.match(/Q\d+$/); // preferably with a more thorough check than this...
        if (itemId) {
            // do some stuff with itemId
            return false;
        }
    } catch (err) {};
});