Ghuron added a comment.
The only reason I mention Special:WhatLinksHere is that I thought it would be
easier to implement, which doesn't seems to be the case.
If some can expose reasonable subset of haswbstatement - I would be more than
happy.
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.or
Uzume added a comment.
I agree that Special:WhatLinksHere is probably not the right semantics for
this request, `haswbstatement` might be better semantics, however, those need
to be well defined so people know if in fact they would address this request.
For example, I assume this would r
hoo added a comment.
So I just looked into this a bit and sadly this is not a trivial change.
First of all, I don't think we want to expose backlinks (as in
Special:WhatLinksHere) as these don't have the semantics the use cases here
call for (and using them still would probably lead to stran
lucamauri added a comment.
As this function would be very significant for a project of mine, I would
like to work on it.
I am willing to put effort in implementing such a function, but I have some
difficulties to get started with it.
I read above that the function already exist in Wikibas
are you talking about the info box ?
From: Ghuron
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 2:55 AM
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Subject: [Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On]
T185313:mw.wikibase.entity:getBacklinks (lua API in wikibase client)
Ghuron added a comment.
I'd
Ghuron added a comment.
I'd like to explain another scenario, where this functionality can be useful. Ru-wiki infoboxes sometimes add categories to the corresponding articles. Sometimes we do this based on wikidata, but we are pretty much limited to a few cases, defined in P1465, P1792, P1464 or ve
Uzume added a comment.
In T185313#3916435, @Ghuron wrote:
Well, although I can some similarities between this one and T99899, I believe there are different use cases involved. Lookup for external identifier is mostly needed in _javascript_ (e.g. notify user that wikidata instance with the same imd
Ghuron added a comment.
In T185313#3915129, @Uzume wrote:
This seems like a more generalized version of T99899 (see also T149108).
Well, although I can some similarities between this one and T99899, I believe there are different use cases involved. Lookup for external identifier is mostly needed
