Uzume added a comment.

  The issue becomes how to represent multiple edition links in Mediawiki 
toolbars across multiple WMF wikis across their projects. Currently, as 
implemented via WD sitelinks, we only allow one link per wiki per project per 
WD item. This is in part owning to the limited space in the Mediawiki toolbars 
where such links are displayed. Even across wikis within a single project when 
only a single link is allowed per wiki, there can sometimes be a *very* large 
number of links (there are many languages in Wikipedia alone and already there 
are mechanisms that limit the number of sitelinks displayed in the toolbar by 
default).
  
  Wikidata already has a method of linking works and their editions as well a 
providing sitelinks to WMF wiki pages for each WD item. I am not sure it is a 
good idea to consider stuffing all the links of all the editions of a work into 
the MW toolbar of a wiki even if a good method of how to organize the display 
of such links could found. That said, I can see the value in using the Wikidata 
work and edition links to provide an overview of the all the sitelinks across 
all editions of a work in some fashion--perhaps something like an autogenerated 
disambiguation page at the work level on Wikisource wikis or a navigation 
template that can exist somewhere on the Wikisource edition pages. Such 
navigation could be stuffed into the toolbar if another "Wikisource editions" 
section was added but I would maintain that I would not want that extraneous 
noise on wikis other than Wikisource wikis. At some point too many navigation 
links presented all at once with limited organization becomes a deficit with 
regard to navigation itself.
  
  It should also be considered that currently it is expensive to access 
multiple Wikidata entities from within the render of a single MW page and that 
there is definitely an upper limit to this sort of traversal to collect 
sitelinks. It would probably be a poor idea to consider pushing this across all 
the wikis across all the projects. Remember this is not just an issue for 
Wikisource editions as Wikidata can and does have edition items for editions of 
works that do not and will probably never have pages at any MWF wiki including 
Wikisource wikis (of course there won't be any sitelinks then either). The 
expensive overhead is incurred just to access the entities whether the items 
have any sitelinks (e.g., to Wikisource) or not. Also the way Wikidata links 
works and editions is inverted to the way you want to traverse them (editions 
point to works not the other way around typically). So there is no way to know 
all the editions of a work just by looking at statements about the work. One 
has to conduct a search query using something like `haswbstatement` or generic 
SPARQL. Neither of these can currently be performed during a page render.

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