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Sitelinks are no longer updated automatically on Wikidata when pages are moved
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Sitelinks are no longer updated automatically on Wikidata when pages are moved.

The following examples are from svwiki (Swedish Wikipedia):
User Essin moved Kemervan to Qämärvan
User Cilidus moved Desa Karanganyar (administrativ by i Indonesien, Jawa Tengah, lat -7,08, long 109,98) to Karanganyar, Kendal
User Ezzex moved Folkmann Schaanning to Folkman Schaanning

In all three cases, I had to manually update the sitelink in the Wikidata objects.

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Nirmos created this task.Aug 9 2026, 2:19 AM
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Nirmos added a comment.Aug 9 2026, 2:51 AM

Some counter-examples, showing that it sometimes works (also from svwiki):

User FBQ moved Johannes Hyrcanus I to Johannes Hyrkanos I
User Diupwijk moved Josefine Engström to Josefine Heikka

Nirmos added a comment.Aug 9 2026, 2:58 AM

Question: Does the automatic update require JavaScript, or is it completely server-side?

Johannnes89 subscribed.Aug 9 2026, 12:17 PM
Lydia_Pintscher added a project: Wikidata Integration in Wikimedia projects.Aug 10 2026, 3:06 PM
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