Hello all,
This message is important for people who still use the config value mw.config.get( 'wbEntity') in their tools or scripts. This value, deprecated for two years, will be completely dropped on July 24th.
The config value mw.config.get( 'wbEntity') has been deprecated in order to improve the page load time, especially on large Items. Currently, a significant proportion of the HTML on every entity page is generated by this value. Dropping wbEntity completely will make the first paint (time needed to load the page) faster, and will better utilize the server and client cache.
If your code is still using https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85499#5330372 mw.config.get( 'wbEntity'), you can replace it by the hook wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded (see an example here https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Wikibase/blob/47952b3b22a4550f3b2677b96c820e559123864c/repo/resources/wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded.js#L13).
On Wednesday, July 24th, we will drop mw.config.get( 'wbEntity') from Wikidata’s codebase and calling the value will result in an error.
If you have any questions or need help, feel free to leave a comment under the related task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85499.
Thanks for your understanding, Cheers,