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Is there any evidence of a link between protected Wikipedia pages and vandalism in Wikidata? The sample of edits I looked at showed no correlation (I checked 10 items vandalised by IPs from Spanish-speaking countries and 9 of them were not protected on the Spanish Wikipedia). That's a very small sample, but I'm not aware of any other data.
I do think it's a good idea to hide links for editing Wikidata on protected Wikipedia pages. but automatically protecting Wikidata items based the number of protected sitelinks seems like something more complicated that won't necessarily be very effective.
In T205783#4670471, @Addshore wrote:if we want to do this in some automated way as described in the current description then we should look at what different values of X would mean to wikidata items right now.
eg. given 4 sitelinks are protected on a client site, protect the wikidata item, how many items would that mean get protected?
Would you be able to do some stats for that? (I guess number of protected pages linked to an item and how many items there are with that number)
In T205783#4703181, @abian wrote:Maybe a first step for this, or a positive step in any case, would be to let humans know which Wikimedia pages are protected directly from its corresponding Wikidata entity. This might consist on including an icon like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Semi_protect.svg next to each interwiki. What do you think?
I like that idea.
What I think we really need is a page protection level which doesn't accidentally break things and create weird behaviour for other wikis. Semi-protection can prevent page moves/deletions from being reflected on the Wikidata item (breaking the interwiki links for the page) and stop people from adding interwiki links. If we had a protection level which didn't do that, we could safely protect a lot more highly visible items (e.g. any item used more X times by other projects) regardless of whether any corresponding Wikipedia pages are protected.
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