Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Wikidata/Tool to bulk replace long-hand citations with items

Tool to bulk replace long-hand citations with items

  • Problem: Sometimes a cited source is subsequently added to Wikidata as an item. We need to be able to convert such citations to use the QID of that item, and to do so efficiently.
  • Proposed solution: A tool that will replace all instance of a selected citation on a given item (or set of items?) in one go.
  • Who would benefit: Wikidata editors
  • More comments: worked example; example diff
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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