If you save a page with some {{#property:P123}} call that does show some results and then look into "Wikidata entities used in this page" via action=info, you will see both the labels and the titles are used on that page. However, the result doesn't show any links, so the titles are not actually used.
Perhaps the code that both #property and #statements use does this for both of them but should only for #statements.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | |
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| Resolved | Lydia_Pintscher | T49288 [Epic] Track Wikidata entity usage on client pages | ||
| Resolved | thiemowmde | T181813 #property: parser function tracks titles but doesn't show them | ||
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I tried to reproduce this locally:
The reason for this can be seen in UsageTrackingSnakFormatter::formatSnak. A "Title" usage is always tracked, no matter what the format is.
Change 395582 had a related patch set uploaded (by Thiemo Mättig (WMDE); owner: Thiemo Mättig (WMDE)):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Don't track title usage when {{#property:…}} doesn't link to that title
I just realized that this fix will decrease the amount of usages that are tracked. This is superb! I just can't tell what the impact might be. Could be nothing, could be 1%. This will have an effect on all wiki pages that use the old #property parser function with a property of type "wikibase-item" or "wikibase-property". I assume there are still a lot templates out there that either unintentionally continue to use #property, or intentionally use it because they want a label without a link. So the impact could be much more than 1%.
Thanks a lot for reporting this!
Change 396322 had a related patch set uploaded (by Thiemo Mättig (WMDE); owner: Thiemo Mättig (WMDE)):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Split StatementGroupRendererFactoryTest::testNewRenderer_usageTracking
Change 395582 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Don't track title usage when {{#property:…}} doesn't link to that title
Change 396322 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Split StatementGroupRendererFactoryTest::testNewRenderer_usageTracking