Yurik added a comment.

Another possible use case: multiple sitelinks to the same site. For example, Wikidata may have a project page for postal codes in English, and someone wants a similar page in German. But the community does not want direct translation, because English page may want to cover the whole world, while the corresponding German page may only want to concentrate on the aspects specific to Germany.

In short, we end up with multiple pages about the same subject, just like Wikipedia, that should have "sitelinks", but all pages live on the same wiki, and all would like to share the same wikibase item.

P.S. (tangent) TBH, I am not a big fan of the language-based content division because languages do not map well to territories, but this may be the reality of that community, e.g. if postal codes are similar in Austria / Swiz / ...


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