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

  1. Not include changes to descriptions used in other languages

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@Aklapper from what I understand I have their explicit agreement

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?

JTannerWMF subscribed.

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

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.