Hello all,
In April, we announced a new level of constraint
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/04#New_status_of_constraint:_"suggestion">,
"suggestion", based on community request. The change is now deployed. You
can now add suggestion constraint (Q62026391)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62026391> as constraint status (P2316)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2316> on constraint statements.
The notification icon will be a flag, unless a mandatory or ordinary
constraint is already listed, in that case its icon will appear.
Please note that this is the first roll-out of the feature, some issues may
appear. You are also very welcome to give feedback, if some things are not
working as you wish they would, feel free to ping me or raise it in the
ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204439>. Thanks!
On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 14:20, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hello all,
As you may know, we currently have two levels of property constraints
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Property_constraints_portal>:
mandatory constraints and "normal" (non-mandatory) ones. In order to allow
more flexibility and subtlety in constraints definition, we are going to
introduce *a new constraint level, suggestion*. This way, editors can
distinguish the really crucial constraint violations from the ones that
only suggest additional edits that would be nice to make.
When setting up a constraint rule, you could define it as a suggestion by
adding a qualifier to the constraint definition statement with the property constraint
status (P2316) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2316> and the
value suggestion constraint (Q62026391)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62026391>.
The suggestion constraint would get a specific icon to make it clearly
different from the mandatory and non-mandatory constraints. The current
icons look like this:
[image: Screenshot icons for Wikidata constraints.png]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_icons_for_Wikidata_constraints.png>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_icons_for_Wikidata_const…
The feature will be enabled on May 6th. Starting from this date, you will
be able to define constraints as suggestions and they will be displayed as
such for all logged-in users.
Please note that this is the first roll-out of the feature, some issues
may appear. You are also very welcome to give feedback, if some things are
not working as you wish they would, we can still fix them. In that case,
feel free to ping me or write a comment in the related ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204439>.
Thanks to the people who made this request, this feature was suggested
during one of the “pink pony session” at Wikimania and we hope that you
will enjoy it!
Cheers,
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
