https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54162
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Bug ID: 54162
Summary: Almost impossible from client's perspective to restore
deleted language links
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: WikidataClient
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Classification: Unclassified
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From the client's perspective it is almost impossible to restore deleted
language links. As an example, this happened to me some days ago:
1. I saw a change to [[de:Lateinische Zeichen in Unicode]] on my watchlist, and
visited the article to view it.
2. I more or less accidently found the language links missing.
3. I tried to use Special:ItemByTitle to find the item and restore the links,
but no item was found.
4. I went to [[en:Latin script in Unicode]] to get the item/links from there,
but they were missing there, too.
5. I had to change my watchlist to "simple" to see the Wikidata changes there,
and had to go through the old changes to find the one change that diconnected
the de-article from its Wikidata item. If this had happened 30 days ago, the
change would no longer have appeared there.
TL;DR
There must be a simple way to get the item a page previously was connected to,
even if it was removed from that item. Otherwise it is very hard to revert such
a removal, and in an open system it is very important, that reverts are
(almost) as easy as changes.
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