Currently, Wikibase only supports dispatching changes for entities that are stored in the main slot of a page, more or less by accident.
RepoHooks::onRevisionFromEditComplete()
if ( $entityContentFactory->isEntityContentModel( $wikiPage->getContent()->getModel() ) ) { self::notifyEntityStoreWatcherOnUpdate( $revisionRecord->getContent( SlotRecord::MAIN ), $revisionRecord ); $notifier = WikibaseRepo::getChangeNotifier(); // ...
(WikiPage::getContent() hard-codes the main slot.)
ChangeNotifier::notifyOnPageModified()
/** @var EntityContent $parentContent */ $parentContent = $parent->getContent( SlotRecord::MAIN ); '@phan-var EntityContent $parentContent'; $content = $current->getContent( SlotRecord::MAIN ); // ...
For changes to MediaInfo entities (stored in the mediainfo slot of file pages), we never create any changes, the wb_changes table remains empty, there is nothing to dispatch, pages using entity data (over 140 million, according to wbc_entity_usage) aren’t updated. We probably want to fix this – however: the impact of this on Commons (suddenly many more jobs in the job queue) should be carefully considered, possibly with a staged rollout.