On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Jérémie Roquet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Some people start worrying about the fact that updates to wikidata > items would not show up as changes of the Wikipedia articles that use > them in their Wikipedia watchlists. > Any idea of what can be done to allow regular Wikipedians to follow > the changes in Wikidata that affect the articles they are watching > without having to maintain and check an additional watchlist on an > other wiki?
Yes You can check this bug for example for status updates on that: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40358 > Also, some people are used to follow changes to articles in a given > category (on the French Wikipedia, we have thematic portals on every > single article, so many people use the categories associated with the > portals to follow the recent changes instead of their own watchlists). > Will they still be able to do that if some content is moved to Wikidata? Can you please add a note about that to the above bug so we can keep this in mind? Thanks! > Amir Elisha Aharoni asked pretty much the same question back in August > in a thread entitled “watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki”. > He suggested that “The most practical way to solve this is to show > that some piece of data that affects a Wikipedia article in the > watchlist, as if it is a change in the article itself.” but didn't get > any answer on that point. > > Best regards, Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
