Jan_Dittrich added a comment.
I looked into this to find out what this function does. Here is what I currently assume: - It uses the same API as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ItemByTitle which searched by the title that the Article for an item has on //another Wiki//. - that //other wiki// is Wikipedia in the language in which the user views the Wikidata interface: If you view it e.g. in German, it uses dewiki and uses the titles of German Wikipedia articles to link you to their corresponding Wikidata items. (…so there is some indirection (Other Wikipedia as title source, implicit Wikipedia selection via Wikidata interface setting) involved to understand it.) - I do not know why users prefer this search, but I assume it can be more predictable than the "normal" search, since it only considers titles (but titles of a specific //Wikipedia//). It also might be useful for people switching between "their" Wikipedia and Wikidata (as they can transfer familiarity from their Wikipedia to Wikidata). - The description on the gadget page is "search form to find an item directly by its sitelink", which I found a bit irritating, since one item can have many sitelinks. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308657 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jan_Dittrich Cc: Jan_Dittrich, Lydia_Pintscher, Erdinc_Ciftci_WMDE, Aklapper, Sarai-WMDE, Astuthiodit_1, Romain, Patafisik_WMF, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, Manishagoenka, Selby, maantietaja, cristiana023, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, JanJaquemot, Demian, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, dachary, LawExplorer, JJMC89, Iniquity, _jensen, rosalieper, Agabi10, JGirault, Scott_WUaS, Volker_E, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Ricordisamoa, Tacsipacsi, Sjoerddebruin, Mbch331
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