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group monolingual text statements by language or language code
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
On Wikidata, some properties with monolingual string datatype have multiple statements, one or several for each language. Statements for a given language, are generally considered together.

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

  • Q185099#P1843 taxon Common name for "Water Rail". English, French, Latvian and Dutch have multiple statements (query).

Similarly other items with statements of the same property (Property_talk:P1843 counts 578,859 statements, these are on different 147471 items). Other properties where this may be useful:

The question is independent of the inclusion of one or the other values and the sorting of such statements by value or language.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):
Makes statements quicker to read (by humans).

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