Hey!
tl;dr after the next deploy merging two items creates a redirect, merge gadget (and every tool with a similar functionality) needs to be adjusted to the new functionality
There was a change to the functionality of merging items. Whenever you merge two items a redirect will be automatically created. If you merge via the special page nothing changed - except for the item, that is merged into another item now also redirects to that item. The same goes for the API except for using 'ignoreconflicts'- when the item is not left empty after the merge it won't be a redirect and still be there as before without the data that got merged into the other item. (So it will only have the data that would have given a merge conflict.)
Last but not least: The merge gadget will need some adjusting. That's expected since the functionality changed. Please keep that in mind if you have any tool, that merges items.
Cheers,
Lucie
Hi,
I've added a task to our Wikidata gadgets project on Phabricator to be sure that the merge gadget gets adjusted: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107275 Greetings, Sjoerd de Bruin Op 29 jul 2015 om 12:49 uur uur schreef Lucie Kaffee lucie.kaffee@wikimedia.de:
Hey!
tl;dr after the next deploy merging two items creates a redirect, merge gadget (and every tool with a similar functionality) needs to be adjusted to the new functionality
There was a change to the functionality of merging items. Whenever you merge two items a redirect will be automatically created. If you merge via the special page nothing changed - except for the item, that is merged into another item now also redirects to that item. The same goes for the API except for using 'ignoreconflicts'- when the item is not left empty after the merge it won't be a redirect and still be there as before without the data that got merged into the other item. (So it will only have the data that would have given a merge conflict.)
Last but not least: The merge gadget will need some adjusting. That's expected since the functionality changed. Please keep that in mind if you have any tool, that merges items.
Cheers,
Lucie
Hi,
Thanks for the update. With redirect now becoming common as a meaningful part of the data, could we also have information about them in the JSON dumps? Or is this maybe already planned/tracked/implemented somewhere?
Cheers,
Markus
On 29.07.2015 13:32, Sjoerd de Bruin wrote:
Hi,
I've added a task to our Wikidata gadgets project on Phabricator to be sure that the merge gadget gets adjusted: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107275
Greetings,
Sjoerd de Bruin
Op 29 jul 2015 om 12:49 uur uur schreef Lucie Kaffee lucie.kaffee@wikimedia.de:
Hey!
tl;dr after the next deploy merging two items creates a redirect, merge gadget (and every tool with a similar functionality) needs to be adjusted to the new functionality
There was a change to the functionality of merging items. Whenever you merge two items a redirect will be automatically created. If you merge via the special page nothing changed - except for the item, that is merged into another item now also redirects to that item. The same goes for the API except for using 'ignoreconflicts'- when the item is not left empty after the merge it won't be a redirect and still be there as before without the data that got merged into the other item. (So it will only have the data that would have given a merge conflict.)
Last but not least: The merge gadget will need some adjusting. That's expected since the functionality changed. Please keep that in mind if you have any tool, that merges items.
Cheers,
Lucie
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the update. With redirect now becoming common as a meaningful part of the data, could we also have information about them in the JSON dumps? Or is this maybe already planned/tracked/implemented somewhere?
There is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98320 for this. I wonder if we should provide this as a separate dump.
Cheers Lydia
On 30.07.2015 09:12, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the update. With redirect now becoming common as a meaningful part of the data, could we also have information about them in the JSON dumps? Or is this maybe already planned/tracked/implemented somewhere?
There is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98320 for this. I wonder if we should provide this as a separate dump.
A separate dump might be useful, but I have no strong opinion on this. If this is included in the JSON dump, however, I would really appreciate an advance warning on how this is going to look so that we can prepare our software to support this rather than reporting warnings about unrecognised data.
Markus