(Apologies for posting in English)
Hello everyone,
I'm Danny Benjafield from the Wikidata for Wikimedia projects development team at Wikimedia Deutschland. Over the past year, our team has been working to investigate ways to improve the relationship and integrations between Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects.
After carrying out a Research project and talking to editors from different communities, we decided to take Phabricator ticket: T66315 as our very first development task.
This task would move the Wikidata Item link (that takes you to the Q-Id of the corresponding article on Wikidata) from the ‘General’ sidebar menu, into the ‘In Other Projects’ sidebar menu.
Before we do anything, we want to make sure that the community is willing to participate and accept this change and collaborate with us.
One of the reasons we want to ask your community to help as a Pilot Wiki is that the Basque Wikipedia is already using Java script to resolve this issue. With our task, we would add our code to the latest MediaWiki version and this Java script code can be removed. (There should be no effects if it remains however, but checking there are no bugs or unforeseen interactions is part of our testing requirements.)
In short, we would like your approval to test this change on the Basque Wikipedia.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask them here, or you can post them to the Task Discussion page. Please feel free to reply in Basque or English, we will use machine translation to translate your responses.
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I will do my best to answer as soon as possible. Many thanks for your attention, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (Community Communications, Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects)