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How to connect pages with Wikidata items in the new Vector

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SGrabarczuk (WMF) (eztabaidaekarpenak)

Hello! In the week of August 2nd, the link for "Gehitu loturak/Aldatu loturak" will be restored to the sidebar. It will appear in the Tresnak section as "Hizkuntzen arteko loturak gehitu/Aldatu hizkuntzen arteko loturak".

When building the language button, we did not include the "Gehitu loturak/Aldatu loturak" link. This was because this functionality is a part of improved language selector. That selector is currently being built by another team of the Wikimedia Foundation. As a result, the link was missing. We have received requests to restore it.

We explored the best way to do it as a temporary solution. We decided to add it into the sidebar in the Tresnak section. You can see the location on the screenshot.

When the improved language selector is deployed, the "Gehitu loturak/Aldatu loturak" link will be back together with the language links in the button.

Theklan (eztabaidaekarpenak)

NO! It doesn't work in the same way it used to be. This is broken, and the solution is even worse than not having it at all.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (eztabaidaekarpenak)

Hi @Theklan. I admit I edit Wikidata relatively rarely. What is worse, specifically? (In other words, what's the difference between the previous and the current state?) What would you expect instead?

Theklan (eztabaidaekarpenak)

There was a popup where you simply added another language code and the article title and it was done. The user wasn't sent to Wikidata. Sending people to a web they don't even know OUTSIDE their wiki is not only a bad practice, is also shocking for the user.

The current link creates a new item at Wikidata, instead of doing what the title says: linking to other languages. It creates more burden, it doesn't do what you expect, it sends you to an external project and it is not where it should.

I really don't understand how this have been accepted by the UX team.

Theklan (eztabaidaekarpenak)

You have it perfectly described here: T286659

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