Problem:
On Chinese Wiktionary (zhwiktionary), pages in the Reconstruction namespace (Namespace ID: 114) can be manually linked to Wikidata items (either manually or via bot), but unlike other non-main namespaces such as Category and Template:
- The "Edit links" button does not appear in the sidebar
- Interlanguage links from Wikidata do not display in the sidebar
Context:
- Reconstruction namespace pages have different names across Wiktionaries due to language-specific proto-language names (e.g., "Reconstruction:原始斯拉夫語/slovo" on zhwiktionary vs. "Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slovo" on enwiktionary), so they cannot use the automatic linking system like main namespace entries
- I have already linked over 1,000 Reconstruction pages to Wikidata using a bot as part of routine maintenance
- This is an uncontroversial configuration completion rather than a new local policy, as the namespace is actively used but simply lacks the proper Wikibase client configuration
Requested action:
Please enable the Wikibase client for Namespace 114 on zhwiktionary. Specifically, please add 114 to the $wmgWikibaseClientSettings['namespaces'] array for zhwiktionary in wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php.
Scope:
Requesting this specifically for zhwiktionary. If the SRE team finds it appropriate and safe to enable this globally for all Wiktionaries that use NS:114 for Reconstruction, that would also be welcomed.