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Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Wikidata/Display reference in edit summary when a reference is added

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Display reference in edit summary when a reference is added

Problem: The edit summary for this diff does display that a reference was added, but not which reference it is. References can be unreliable, spam links etc. so having them be easy to monitor is desirable.

Who would benefit: People who patrol Wikidata items for problematic edits, since the content of the diff is immediately displayed.

Proposed solution: Add the content of the reference to the edit summary; in this case it would be "Added reference (imported from:English Wikipedia) to claim: mountain range (P4552): Andes (Q5456)"

More comments: I hope that this isn't too late, it's a repost of two similar requests in the preceding years. This feature would be useful as well if it displayed in crosswiki watchlists. There may be length issues when the reference is long.

Phabricator tickets:

Proposer: Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Voting

Support --NGC 54 (talk / contribs) 20:29, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ssstela (talk) 21:36, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Epìdosis 21:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support YFdyh000 (talk) 22:27, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:19, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 05:38, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kpjas (talk) 11:21, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Em-mustapha ^{User | talk} 15:22, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 21:22, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 01:56, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 20:58, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 15:44, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Susanna Giaccai (talk) 16:51, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Klaas `Z4␟` V: 13:41, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nikkimaria (talk) 16:36, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Épico (talk)/(contribs) 00:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support GiFontenelle (talk) 00:51, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jklamo (talk) 16:20, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fringilla (talk) 20:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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