Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Wikidata/Preview common properties in search & dropdowns
Preview common properties in search & dropdowns
- Problem: In Wikidata search results and in the hint dropdown that appears as you add new properties, you see the items' labels and their manually entered description field. Often, there is no manual description, so you have to open a bunch of similarly-named items in new tabs to determine if an item is a person, a building, a musical album, a disambiguation page, etc. But many of these items DO have some standard properties (e.g. "instance of") that would provide clarity in these cases.
- Proposed solution: At minimum, some mechanism to see common properties like "instance of" without clicking into the item. Whether this is some sort of auto-generated description (like Reasonator creates) or some other mechanism, this would be quite handy. Or some sort of hover that shows a preview. I'm open to whatever might be possible. "Instance of" would help significantly; even more data (like birth/death dates for people) would be great.
- Who would benefit: Anyone adding properties to Wikidata items or searching for a specific thing.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Sweet kate (talk) 00:37, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- Would have supported if I had known voting ended at 18 UTC. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 23:58, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Voting
- Support Simeon (talk) 19:09, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Veracious (talk) 02:37, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ottawajin (talk) 04:01, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Iamcarbon (talk) 04:18, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Higa4 (talk) 06:39, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Auto-generated descriptions would help immensely. For items without manual descriptions I think it would be necessary to check for two or more items with the same instance of/subclass of, and then for these items also check how they can be disambiguated by location, date, etc that may exist as other statements. Dhx1 (talk) 07:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hard to implement in the vast majority of languages since I'm not aware MediaWiki knows anything about inflection at this point. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 23:57, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hard to implement in the vast majority of languages since I'm not aware MediaWiki knows anything about inflection at this point. ~~~~
- Support 𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 07:29, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Meiræ 12:36, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support HLFan (talk) 15:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Aca (talk) 15:51, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Douglasfugazi (talk) 21:19, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Nw520 (talk) 23:21, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support — HELLKNOWZ ∣ TALK ∣ enWiki 12:24, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 23:57, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ariadacapo (talk) 10:23, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Sascha (talk) 06:49, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 15:41, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Silver hr (talk) 20:49, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Have a manual list for the property like TemplateData is important Thingofme (talk) 14:21, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support SlowByte (talk) 18:48, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support - Darwin Ahoy! 20:38, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Daniel Case (talk) 23:09, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Strong support I do this (opening multiple items with the same name) all the time. Automated descriptions in the style of Autodesc would be a great help. Waldyrious (talk) 00:36, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 09:22, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support —— Eric Liu(Talk) 10:39, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Newt713 (talk) 13:45, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Giodiani (talk) 15:36, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 03:59, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Rzuwig► 12:45, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Matthew T Rader (talk) 20:55, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Dipsacus fullonum (talk) 23:55, 10 February 2022 (UTC)