WD within WP watchlists: Allow hiding changes to descriptions used in other languages
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	May 29 2019, 1:13 AM

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As Wikipedians, we need the ability to see ONLY changes to WikiData elements used within Wikipedia articles within our Wikipedia watchlists.

Amir has made great progress towards this goal here T90436: Improve usage tracking granularity to avoid irrelevant changes showing in the watchlist. with only a few steps left to complete it. One is:

Not include changes to descriptions used in other languages

m D 22:13 Aspirin‎ (Q18216) (diff | hist) . . Dingens5 (talk | contribs) (‎Added [de] alias: ASS; ‎Added [de] alias: Aspirin®)

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Mentioned In: T224532: WD within WP watchlists: Allow hiding new language versions of articles
Mentioned Here: T401288: Implement a more granular alias usage tracking
T224532: WD within WP watchlists: Allow hiding new language versions of articles
T90436: Improve usage tracking granularity to avoid irrelevant changes showing in the watchlist.

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Doc_James created this task.May 29 2019, 1:13 AM

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@Doc_James: Please do not assign tasks to someone else without their explicit agreement. Thanks!

@Aklapper from what I understand I have their explicit agreement

Ladsgroup mentioned this in T224532: WD within WP watchlists: Allow hiding new language versions of articles.May 31 2019, 11:17 AM

I am wondering if this and T224532 should be separate preferences or if we can get away with one. Would aprechiate some input from @Charlie_WMDE and people working on the new watchlist.

How about changes to labels?

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It looks like Wikidata is working on this so the Growth-Team is making this external

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In T224533#5236074, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote:

I am wondering if this and T224532 should be separate preferences or if we can get away with one. Would aprechiate some input from @Charlie_WMDE and people working on the new watchlist.

How about changes to labels?

@Lydia_Pintscher, speaking personally, there are a very few articles (e.g. those I've created) where I'd be mildly interested to know when there's a version in a new language, since it means someone probably translated my work, which is a little cool. But I basically never want to know about just someone saying "the name of John Smith in Foobarian is 'John Smith'". And that's the sort of thing that's turning my watchlist into this:

Watchlist-Wikipedia (1).png (884×1 px, 291 KB)

If we want people to trust Wikidata and ultimately centralize information there, we need the help of Wikipedians watchlisting pages to keep an eye for vandalism etc. And that's never going to happen when permitting Wikidata edits to appear generates this sort of junk. I hope that this task is prioritized and happy to do anything I can to help.

Sdkb added a subscriber: jpxg.Oct 5 2024, 2:19 AM

@dchen this is the task I mentioned yesterday.

Aklapper removed projects: Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team.Mar 25 2025, 10:53 AM

Hello, this ticket T401288: Implement a more granular alias usage tracking may be of interest here; it will reduce the volume of Wikipedia (and other Wikis) Recent Changes and Watchlist changes coming from Wikidata, by applying more specific criteria before a change propagation is made. Although the mentioned ticket only covers edits to Aliases of Wikidata entities (not Descriptions), it does match the example given in this ticket's description.

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Scardenasmolinar moved this task from Inbox to Triaged on the Moderator-Tools-Team board.Sep 10 2025, 6:23 PM

There is a slight ambiguity in the task scope.

The title:

WD within WP watchlists: Allow hiding changes to descriptions used in other languages

The example given:

m D 22:13 Aspirin‎ (Q18216) (diff | hist) . . Dingens5 (talk | contribs) (‎Added [de] alias: ASS; ‎Added [de] alias: Aspirin®)

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WD within WP watchlists: Allow hiding changes to descriptions used in other languages
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