Topic on Talk:Wikidata Bridge

Maybe this is explained somewhere, but I was wondering how Bridge users would notice feedback they might receive on their edits. Supposedly Wikidata contributors would just comment on the user's Wikidata talk page. Do they get notified about it by default?

So far, we have seen two models:

• mobile description edit tool. Wikidata are meant to revert the edits so the users gets notified about problems and eventually removed from the user group
• w:Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper where some users don't seem to get notified or react at all.

The Russian js tool might have another approach.

As far as I know, notifications work cross-wikis. Which means if someone edits from Catalan Wikipedia with the Bridge, and another user write on their Wikidata talk page, or ping them with the ping feature on any talk page on Wikidata, they will receive a notification.

It is possible to turn cross-wiki notifications off, but as default I believe it is turned on.

Maybe there should be some info to users to re-activate that or view Wikidata changes in watchlists.

Just to avoid the recent experience with "Shortdesc helper".

After we were about to block the second script user over it, the option for shortdesc helper was changed (d:Wikidata:Project_chat#w:Wikipedia:Shortdesc_helper).

We tag every edit made through the Bridge. Would that be enough for now to spot that the editor might need to be pinged on their home-wiki? Also keep in mind that I expect very few edits to come through the Bridge in this first version because the existing templates on-wiki need to be adjusted to opt-in and the Bridge can initially only edit datatype string. That should cut it down a lot.

Note that shortdesc is supported on very few wikis, and the idea that something should be locally overridden in this manner is somewhat weird and counterintuitive. It is more of an indication that projects lack integration as it is now.

Make sure that Wikidata Bridge is only available for logged-in users, and the user has enabled cross-wiki notifications.

Is there a way to know if the users have notifications enabled?

Let's see how it goes. It's also less likely to generate a high volume of scripted edits as "shortdesc helper" does.