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Hi everyone,

Many Wikimedia projects already have access to Wikidata and make good use of it to improve their content. I wanted to let you know that your project will be among the next to receive access to Wikidata. As a first step we will enable access to the interwiki links. This is currently scheduled for Oktober 20th. If that goes well we will then later also enable access to the actual data from Wikidata. I'll let you know in advance once we get to that point.

I am excited about welcoming you to Wikidata and hope we'll be able to support you well with structured data. If you have questions please ask here.

\o/ This helps documentation simply because Special:ApiSandbox and {{ApiEx}} can link to local URLs, whereas before extension WikiBase wasn't present on this wiki.

Do we even use interlanguage links on MediaWiki.org? I don't know of any use for them here.

Maybe not here but it is still important to link the respective pages on Wikidata. Take help pages for example. They will be connected through a common item on Wikidata and wikis that have the in other projects sidebar enabled can show those links in their sidebar if they want it. It's also a necessary first step towards giving you access to the data.

Hey everyone :)

I recently announced that you'll get access to Wikidata. We start with access to interwiki links. This means you can for example add your help portal to the Wikidata item for all the other projects' help portals (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q914807). This has happened now.

If everything goes well the next step is giving you access to the actual data like the date of birth of a famous person, the current version of some software and so on. I'll let you know in advance again when that'll happen.

In case you have questions or need some help please come to D:Wikidata:MediaWiki.

Cheers

Lydia