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Wikidata information before publishing a translation
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When inserting certain templates in a translation (such as infoboxes), no fields are to be filled by the user. The template uses the available information on Wikidata and thus will work properly once the article is linked to the proper wikidata item. However, since the Wikidata links seems to be established after the article is published, those templates are not shown with their final aspect in translations in progress.

Allowing the template preview to use information available from Wikidata will allow the translator to detect mistakes earlier and improve the translation quality. For example, it will allow the translator to know which fields need to be translated and which ones should be left empty because they are best regulated by Wikidata.

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That makes perfect sense. There was a discussion on the technical blockers that need to be resolved to better support Wikidata-based templates in T199310: CX2: Better support for Wikidata-based templates.
Is the example in the linked task covering your request?
Feel free to share an example if there was anything not covered int he ticket above.

thanks!

Yes that should cover the issue. How can I mark the task as duplicated?

@FAR: You can use Edit Related Tasks...Close as Duplicate