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TASK DESCRIPTION
Currently, when someone opens VisualEditor on a Wikipedia article that draws
information from Wikidata using {{Wikidata}}
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata>, clicking on the value
displays this:
F34885519: Wikidata VE dialog box.png
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F34885519>
Someone who clicks the edit button is presented with this:
F34885523: Wikidata VE dialog box 2.png
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F34885523>
For an editor looking to simply update the information, this is likely
extremely confusing. They will expect that the edit button will allow them to
edit the value, but they are instead presented with the underlying, very opaque
structure, and there's not even a link to the Wikidata item that hosts the
value. If they are determined, they may just replace {{Wikidata}} with the
updated value, not realizing they just severed the connection to the
centralized data repository and that this may harm future updates.
{{Wikidata}} is the central link between Wikidata and Wikipedia, and as it's
used more and more, it's essential that we improve the workflow for it in
VisualEditor. Ideally, this would involve allowing updates to Wikidata to be
made directly from Wikipedia, but at the very least, there should be a clear
link to the relevant statement of the article's Wikidata item (similar to
{{EditAtWikidata}} <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:EditAtWikidata>).
TemplateData in its current implementation is unequipped to meaningfully help
with this, so developer work is needed.
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297854
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To: Sdkb
Cc: Aklapper, Sdkb, ycrepeau, Invadibot, Mohammadmalek554, maantietaja,
Akuckartz, keithbrianpadilla, Saimongoltinio, WikimeSteve, ppelberg, Nandana,
marcella, Revansx, OhKayeSierra, takidelfin, Lahi, Gq86, Necroarcano, Robinma,
GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, merbst, LawExplorer, Wess, _jensen, rosalieper,
Scott_WUaS, Srdjan, Jrf, Husun1297, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Swainr, Mbch331
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