Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata/A better way to show differences on Wikidata
A better way to show differences on Wikidata
- Problem: When I review changes on Wikidata, all changes appear as exactly the same. In addition, rank ends up on its own line "between" all other edits, which quickly becomes misleading because it looks like many more lines have been changed than it actually has.
- Proposed solution: I suggest that lines without change with rank do not appear in differences on Wikidata and that changes to references and determinations are somewhat more clearly marked as related to their main statement.
- Who would benefit: Anyone who patrols and reviews edits on Wikidata.
- More comments: Would welcome suggestions and constructive criticism on how this could be done.
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Sabelöga (talk) 00:34, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
- @Sabelöga: Thank you for submitting this proposal! We reviewed this problem and we were not able to replicate a case where the rank appeared in differences when it was not changed. Can you link us to an example on Wikidata where you experienced this issue? HMonroy (WMF) (talk) 01:52, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
- @HMonroy (WMF) d:Special:Diff/1822385984 <- Here the rank is shown on its own row which isn't really helpful. d:Special:Diff/1822382245 <- Here the rank is shown between the added statement and qualifier which is really disruptive. I think that normal rank should be considered assumed and not mentioned in diffs unless changed. Sabelöga (talk) 14:15, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Sabelöga: Thanks, that's terrific info. I've added the 2nd link to the problem statement above. Will move this for translation now. SWilson (WMF) (talk) 10:18, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
- @HMonroy (WMF) d:Special:Diff/1822385984 <- Here the rank is shown on its own row which isn't really helpful. d:Special:Diff/1822382245 <- Here the rank is shown between the added statement and qualifier which is really disruptive. I think that normal rank should be considered assumed and not mentioned in diffs unless changed. Sabelöga (talk) 14:15, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Voting
- Support VIGNERON * discut. 19:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support DFichtmueller (talk) 12:06, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support —(ping on reply)—CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 07:39, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Wire723 (talk) 11:57, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support It should be added as well. Thingofme (talk) 16:14, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Czupirek (talk) 21:34, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Niskka2 (talk) 21:58, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support -- Ferien (talk) 10:02, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support — Draceane talkcontrib. 12:48, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support cyrfaw (talk) 18:36, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Lectrician1 (talk) 23:10, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Kalendar (talk) 06:34, 22 February 2023 (UTC)