On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Lukas Benedix benedix@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
Hi,
the handling of double Entries is strange. The warning, that you created an allready existing Item comes up very late.
What I did:
Search for "Käsebrot" -> not found Create a new Item
enter Label: "Käsebrot" enter Description: "ein Brot mit einem Belag aus Käse"
Add "Also known as": "Käsestulle" try to add a Link to de:Käsebrot
get the following Error-Message: "An error occurred while trying to perform save and because of this, your changes could not be completed." click Details: Edit not allowed: Site link [[dewiki:Käsebrot]] already used by item [[Q1795455]].
That is quite frustrating... It took seven steps until I get informed about the Error I made.
I figured out, that you only check for double Entries when you enter a Label and a Description in the currently selected language in the second Step. That check is also a check for bitwise equality. One different character in the description and you get no warning. If the desctiption and Label equals to an existing item you get the following Error-Message: "Another item (3220891) already has label "Käsebrot" and description "ein Brot mit einem Belag aus Käse" associated with language code en".
I think you should:
enable the search for Item-Labels check the Label when creating a new Item add Links to the existing Item in the error-messages
Yes. http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ItemByTitle is helpful until then.
After my tests there are several Items with the Label "Käsebrot", I'm sorry for that.
Please list them on http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions
Cheers Lydia
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