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by hobofan 2262 days ago
I was going to say "The Wikipedia page uses the data from Wikidata", as I thought I had seen that in the past. Turns out that it's not the case, and after picking a few samples, it looks like Wikidata is barely put in use in Wikipedia (aside from the inter-wiki links).
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skissane 2262 days ago
A lot of Wikipedia templates now pull data from Wikidata – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_using_data_...

In the case of the Sci-Hub article, it actually would pull the website address from Wikidata, except that the article has been configured to override the Wikidata website address data with its own. Heaps of articles do this – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Official_website_diff... – but I understand the aim is to try to reduce the number of those cases over time.

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hobofan 2262 days ago
Yeah, via the overriding is how I came to the conclusion that it's not being used. I looked at the pages (specifically the infoboxes) and basically all values shown in the article were spelled out in the source. At the same time no Wikidata ID was present in the source (though I now realize that the template can automatically query that based on the page it's being used on).

> A lot of Wikipedia templates now pull data from Wikidata

It looks okay for the English wiki, but the others seem to trail behind quite a lot (though obviously number of best templates isn't a perfect metric).

English: 539 German: 128 Chinese: 93 French: 52 Swedish: 37 Spanish: 19

Given that only ~2200 English Wikipedia articles have their infobox completely from Wikidata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_infobox...), it looks like Wikidata integration still has a long long way to go.

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