There isn't reason to celebrate, unfortunately.

The blog post mentions only Wikipedia links. And, in fact, doing a search
on test.viaf.org, you will get only records containing links to Wikipedia.

See for example the JSON formated record for Jane Austen:

http://rdap02pxdu.dev.oclc.org:8080/viaf/102333412/justlinks.json

Wikidata entry for Jane Austen points also to 1 Wikibooks page, 22
Wikiquote pages, & Wikisource pages and 1 Wikimedia Commons page.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36322

I'm not particularly surprised on this, since the Wikimedia Foundation
never does nothing to help "sister" projects (in fact, only puts dozens of
barriers to allow/approve changes in MediaWiki for those and, recently,
started to put barriers to approve local chapters actions on non-Wikipedias
wikis, as we can see on some past messages on this list).

[[User:555]]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:18 PM, billinghurst <[email protected]>
wrote:

> From the Wikidata weekly newsletter, I was led to the VIAF blog
> post[1] which talks about how VIAF is going to re-orientate their
> linking from English Wikipedia to Wikidata. This should have a
> positive effect for the Wikisources in general, and non-English WSes
> especially, in making more overt the authors that you have in your
> wikis.
>
> We should also be aware of the issue that (more?) people will arrive
> at our pages directly via WD.
>
> [http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/03/moving-to-wikidata.html]
>
> Regards, Andrew
> PS. Some of the more WD-aligned personnel will presumably already know
> this.
>
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