Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata/Default collapse statements when they have many values
Default collapse statements when they have many values
- Problem: Some Wikidata items have a huge number of statements for some properties. A few examples are populations on human settlements and administrative areas (e.g. d:Q183#P1082), versions on software (e.g. d:Q83#P348) and number of deaths on COVID-19 items (e.g. d:Q87477462#P1120) but there are many more. This makes these items very tedious to navigate, as they require an excessive amount of scrolling. This was discussed on Wikidata four years ago, and resurfaced last fall (connected to a larger issue).
- Proposed solution: If a statement has more than just a few values, perhaps even as low as three, the entire statement could be "collapsed" to just show the property name, how many values it has, and a way to expand it. A nice-to-have is if expanding a property is "remembered" across items, as it is not unusual to work on the same property on a number of items and repeatedly having to unfold it then also would be tedious. Also, since a small number of editors working on these kinds of properties might not want to have this behavior at all, it should be possible to turn it off in the preferences (or by turning off the gadget, if that is how it is implemented).
- Who would benefit: Editors and readers of Wikidata.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets: Tickets:
- Foldable/Collapsable statements for multivalued properties (T239820).
- Also related to the problem is Provide a way to avoid loading all statements when opening a new Wikidata item (T158182) although that is a bit more far-stretching proposal.
- Proposer: ♥Ainali talkcontributions 19:14, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
- As a workaround, the updown.js user script adds clickable arrows to jump to the last or first value of such statements. Dexxor (talk) 09:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- In addition to completely collapsing those lists of values, they could have a max height shown by default, which would then need to be manually expanded to show the entire list. --Waldyrious (talk) 19:23, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Voting
- Support Onthewings (talk) 21:22, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Tom Ja (talk) 21:40, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Joshbaumgartner (talk) 23:03, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support عُثمان (talk) 23:33, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support NMaia (talk) 00:05, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support PKM (talk) 00:21, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Poslovitch (talk) 00:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support EijiroSaito (talk) 01:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 02:42, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Tgr (talk) 04:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Franz.wohlkoenig (talk) 06:27, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Gohan 07:11, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support --Epìdosis 08:43, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Muted Red Tulip (talk) 09:28, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support to improve performance on big items Dexxor (talk) 09:36, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support CaféBuzz (talk) 10:56, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Waldyrious (talk) 11:33, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Nw520 (talk) 12:31, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Joseph (talk) 13:25, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support RVA2869 (talk) 14:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support JackPotte (talk) 15:01, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Bluerasberry (talk) 15:14, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Bigbossfarin (talk) 17:00, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Ahkei (talk) 01:49, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Betseg (talk) 03:44, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support HLFan (talk) 08:52, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Mehman 09:40, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Fvtvr3r (talk) 13:44, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support QubeCube (talk) 14:38, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support LevandeMänniska (talk) 14:39, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Arvelius (talk) 14:41, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support My preferred behaviour would be to show the preferred value in the collapsed state. ProbabilityCollapse (talk) 17:49, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Bencemac (talk) 20:18, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Husky (talk) 21:13, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 01:07, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support TiagoLubiana (talk) 18:45, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support JAn Dudík (talk) 21:49, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Gillum (talk) 22:46, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support +1 YjM (talk) 23:09, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 02:44, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Just N. (talk) 14:46, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support VIGNERON * discut. 19:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support DFichtmueller (talk) 12:01, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Aishik Rehman (talk) 08:45, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Steam Flow (talk) 22:08, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Fexpr (talk) 09:09, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support DobryBrat (talk) 10:37, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support DoublePendulumAttractor (talk) 05:59, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Zblace (talk) 07:37, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Kpjas (talk) 08:10, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support --Yining Chen (Talk) 10:08, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Herbert Ortner (talk) 14:04, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:13, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Support as the number of statements can be extremely large to get through. Thingofme (talk) 16:16, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose Christian (talk) 20:30, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Jklamo (talk) 12:15, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Matlin (talk) 13:33, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Jotamide (talk) 15:34, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support β16 - (talk) 10:38, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Ebukadneza (talk) 10:54, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support — Draceane talkcontrib. 12:45, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Watty62 (talk) 17:48, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Nashona (talk) 18:14, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support cyrfaw (talk) 18:47, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Tris T7 (talk) 02:16, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Dajasj (talk) 13:54, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Juandev (talk) 11:23, 23 February 2023 (UTC)