Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Wikidata/Create new item based on another item

Random proposal ►◄ Wikidata

Create new item based on another item

• Problem: Every time an item is created, we have to remake by hand all the information. We could use another item as a template when creating, cloning it and then changing the relevant information (like, for example, coordinates).

• Who would benefit: Wikidata users that don't use extensively bots or tools. Data would be more coherent in this way, also.

• Proposed solution: Having a clone button on each item.

• More comments:

• Phabricator tickets:

• Proposer: Theklan (talk) 17:51, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

• Translations: none yet

Discussion

There is a script for this: d:User:Magnus_Manske/duplicate_item.js. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:49, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

In fact I would prefer to have template, but this can be a first solution. --Dom (talk) 19:35, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Personally I agree with Dom. We can go with some basic templates. Copying the whole item can be a disaster with new editors. --Nahid Hossain (talk) 00:38, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support Mippzon (talk) 07:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:30, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support YFdyh000 (talk) 17:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Walter Klosse (talk) 18:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:56, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 23:14, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Shizhao (talk) 03:33, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Libcub (talk) 05:36, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support PKM (talk) 05:39, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support AlessioMela (talk) 10:31, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support FedericoMorando (talk) 10:35, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 13:15, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 19:28, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Swpb (talk) 20:21, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Luan (discussão) 21:01, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Giovanni Alfredo Garciliano Diaz (talk) 21:37, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Kusurija (talk) 21:40, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Daylen (talk) 04:44, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--L736E^{tell me} 08:31, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Arne (Amjaabc) (talk) 09:00, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support M11rtinb (talk) 09:47, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Jane023 (talk) 11:39, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Like tears in rain (talk) 11:50, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Definitely useful for mass-creating objects from a list Exilexi (talk) 15:19, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support In fact I would prefer to create from a template. --Dom (talk) 19:33, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Barcelona (talk) 00:40, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Hogne (talk) 10:17, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Trizek ^{from FR} 11:28, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Haytham^Abulela 18:23, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Theklan (talk) 18:57, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 21:23, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Wolbo (talk) 12:58, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 13:32, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Townie (talk) 16:22, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:25, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 16:25, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Termininja (talk) 18:20, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Tabacha (talk) 16:01, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Emw (talk) 22:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Tiputini (talk) 07:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:09, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Fixer88 (talk) 17:17, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Higa4 (talk) 09:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support That would be very useful for chemistry, where I repeatedly run into compound classes, where I want to mint entries for specific structures, with proper (stereo) isomorphism. Egon Willighagen (talk) 08:34, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Artem.komisarenko (talk) 00:04, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ecritures (talk) 13:53, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Tacsipacsi (talk) 14:50, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support RolandUnger (talk) 18:18, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Klaas `Z4␟` V:  09:32, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ruslik (talk) 14:00, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Infovarius (talk) 14:00, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support — Luchesar • T/C 14:22, 11 December 2017 (UTC)