Merging items creates redirect now - Wikidata

29 Jul 2015

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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