Maniphest T140124

Enable Merge gadget as default
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	Sjoerddebruin
	Jul 12 2016, 4:16 PM

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Today there are still a lot of uncompleted merges, I think it will help a lot if the merge gadget was enabled as default. There are a few questions:

Enabled as default for all users (including anonymous users)?
Does the code have a big impact on the loading speed?
How many wrong merges can we expect compared to the current situation?

The gadget was recently rewritten to OOjs, but could use a review.

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Mentioned In: T343688: Administration of wbSuite Extensions
T334249: merge.js needs to automatically remove “Wikimedia disambiguation page” descriptions
T205017: Investigation: Look at what gadgets it might make sense to pull into Wikibase
T181910: Native support of merging inside of Wikidata
Mentioned Here: T237262: Tool for undoing Wikidata merges

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Sjoerddebruin created this task.Jul 12 2016, 4:16 PM

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Sjoerddebruin moved this task from incoming to needs discussion or investigation on the Wikidata board.Jul 12 2016, 4:16 PM

Sjoerddebruin moved this task from Backlog to Additions and adjustments on the Wikidata-Gadgets board.Jul 27 2016, 2:52 PM

Lydia_Pintscher moved this task from needs discussion or investigation to monitoring on the Wikidata board.Jun 11 2017, 5:59 PM

As https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2017/06#Integrate_the_merge_function_into_the_default_UI is archived, I think we can move forward this.

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Liuxinyu970226 awarded a token.Jul 25 2017, 12:51 PM

This is not that important, but should be considered

@PokestarFan Please stop triaging issues. You are being disruptive.

Lydia_Pintscher mentioned this in T181910: Native support of merging inside of Wikidata.Dec 5 2017, 5:52 PM

Addshore mentioned this in T205017: Investigation: Look at what gadgets it might make sense to pull into Wikibase.Sep 20 2018, 8:56 PM

Jony subscribed.Sep 4 2019, 1:28 PM

I do not see now any objection to do it. Very useful and well done tool

I am dealing with undoing a lot of bad merges where people merge two items that have little to do with each other, like item for painting of a person with the item for a person, etc. Before we make it even easier for new users to merge, we should get a system in place for easy unmerging. See T237262 .

Lectrician1 subscribed.Nov 17 2022, 8:54 PM

Bugreporter mentioned this in T334249: merge.js needs to automatically remove “Wikimedia disambiguation page” descriptions.Apr 10 2023, 4:12 PM

darthmon_wmde mentioned this in T343688: Administration of wbSuite Extensions.Jan 2 2024, 1:21 PM