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)[reply]

Discussion

Would have supported if I had known voting ended at 18 UTC. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)
23:58, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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