[feature request] Watchlist display of wikidata edits (of items connected to a page via arbitrary access) is a bit confusing [add label of linked item]
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	Feb 4 2016, 6:19 AM

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We display the page title of the wikipedia page and in brackets the Q id of the changed item.

so, in this example, I am watching the page "Icefields Parkway" and see such entry in my watchlist:

(diff | hist) . . D Icefields Parkway (Q16); 10:52 . . 90.23.201.232 (talk) (‎Changed [en] label: Manu69dienne)

it looked to me like vandalism so i clicked on the Q id link, and was a bit surprised and confused for a minute that it's not the item for Icefields Parkway. Instead it's the item for Canada. (and while all vandalism is important to spot, this vandalism is especially important and but it's opaque to me that the Canada item changed if I don't know Q16 is Canada)

Now I added Canada wikipedia page to my watchlist and the display is like this:

watchlist-items2.png (257×571 px, 86 KB)

I am not entirely sure how to present these changes more nicely, except maybe show both the Q id + label in brackets.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T90435 [Epic] Wikidata watchlist improvements (client)
		Open		None	T125768 [feature request] Watchlist display of wikidata edits (of items connected to a page via arbitrary access) is a bit confusing [add label of linked item]

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aude created this task.Feb 4 2016, 6:19 AM

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Sjoerddebruin mentioned this in T143742: Mismatched Wikidata information in watchlist.Aug 24 2016, 7:16 AM

Esc3300 renamed this task from Watchlist display of wikidata edits (of items connected to a page via arbitrary access) is a bit confusing to [feature request] Watchlist display of wikidata edits (of items connected to a page via arbitrary access) is a bit confusing [add label of linked item].Aug 24 2016, 7:27 AM

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It would really help if the label of the linked item would appear

Forum discussion: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2016/03#Wikidata_edits_uselessly_repeated_in_Wikipedia_watchlist:_173_lines_for_a_single_edit

hoo subscribed.Aug 24 2016, 11:26 PM

matej_suchanek merged a task: T143742: Mismatched Wikidata information in watchlist.Aug 27 2016, 7:04 AM

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Esc3300 mentioned this in T143485: [bug] sitelink on Wikidata not removed when page on client is deleted.Aug 30 2016, 1:33 PM

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Izno mentioned this in T90436: Improve usage tracking granularity to avoid irrelevant changes showing in the watchlist..Jan 19 2017, 12:57 PM

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Yair_rand subscribed.Mar 30 2017, 10:19 PM

In case anyone here is interested, I made a userscript to fix this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evad37/WikidataWatchlistLabels - it also fetches labels for P- and Q-numbers in edit summaries.

Bugreporter merged a task: T163720: Wrong label shown in watchlist on Wikipedia for a Wikidata change on some items.Jan 25 2020, 10:30 PM

Bugreporter mentioned this in T243697: Watchlist show updates from Wikidata for not connected Wikidata item .

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Bugreporter merged a task: T169689: Wrong relation to Wikidata changes on enhanced watchlist.Mar 26 2020, 10:29 AM

Bugreporter merged a task: T169604: Wikidata changes in watchlist sometimes displays nonsense.

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Bugreporter merged a task: T103676: Wikidata changes in watchlist on client showed wrong links.Mar 26 2020, 10:31 AM

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matej_suchanek updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 26 2020, 10:49 AM

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Bugreporter merged a task: T266802: watchlist Wikidata .Oct 30 2020, 5:33 AM

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