Wikipedia Begins Beta Testing of “Other Projects Sidebar” & Adds Search Syntax

A couple of items we discovered via the latest edition of the Wikimedia Engineering Report (September 1, 2014).

1. You can now opt-in and participate in a beta test of the “Other Projects Sidebar” with links provided by WikiData.

From a Wikimedia Mailing List:

[Opting-in] will add a new section to the sidebar of an article. This section will contain links to related articles in other sister projects. Which projects are shown can be configured per-wiki.

It works only on projects supported by Wikidata. It is already deployed as a default feature for all users in the French and Italian Wikisources (e.g. s:fr:Auteur:William Shakespeare).

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2. Use the linksto: keyword in your search (using CirrusSearch beta) to find pages linking to a specific Wikipedia article.

How To

Details about how to opt-in to these beta tests (along with several others) can be found here.