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.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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