Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata/Default collapse statements when they have many values/Proposal
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- Problem: Some Wikidata items have a huge number of statements for some properties. A few examples are populations on human settlements and administrative areas (e.g. d:Q183#P1082), versions on software (e.g. d:Q83#P348) and number of deaths on COVID-19 items (e.g. d:Q87477462#P1120) but there are many more. This makes these items very tedious to navigate, as they require an excessive amount of scrolling. This was discussed on Wikidata four years ago, and resurfaced last fall (connected to a larger issue).
- Proposed solution: If a statement has more than just a few values, perhaps even as low as three, the entire statement could be "collapsed" to just show the property name, how many values it has, and a way to expand it. A nice-to-have is if expanding a property is "remembered" across items, as it is not unusual to work on the same property on a number of items and repeatedly having to unfold it then also would be tedious. Also, since a small number of editors working on these kinds of properties might not want to have this behavior at all, it should be possible to turn it off in the preferences (or by turning off the gadget, if that is how it is implemented).
- Who would benefit: Editors and readers of Wikidata.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets: Tickets:
- Foldable/Collapsable statements for multivalued properties (T239820).
- Also related to the problem is Provide a way to avoid loading all statements when opening a new Wikidata item (T158182) although that is a bit more far-stretching proposal.
- Proposer: ♥Ainali talkcontributions 19:14, 29 January 2023 (UTC)