Hi,

Kateryna is working on this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Matching_Red_Links_with_Wikidata_Items

Please ping or write something in the discussion page if you want to know more about that project.

This is very good idea,. However, the task description is slightly too technical, e.g can someone add a kind of "user story" to explain how a regular user is expected to link between the article to be created and Wikidata entity? (I'm missing what, if any, user interface support for it should be made)

I imagine that the following UI components are to be affected:

1. wikitext editor - some additional field (possibly with autocomplete) to link to entity
2. VisualEditor - it should be possible in the advanced options to link article to item
3. ContentTranslation - content translation should be aware to it without explicitly setting the item.

If this is correct, this means 2 implementations in the backend side?

1. index.php?action=edit - e.g for the classic usage
2. RESTBase-API the new contenttranslation is using REST-base and we need it there too (see also T199310)