A query like the below allows currently displays the full url.
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel (URI(CONCAT("https://example.com/",?itemLabel)) as ?url)
{
?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" }
}
LIMIT 10It would be interesting to shorten this to a display text, e.g.
instead of:
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Change 360631 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jonas Kress (WMDE); owner: Jonas Kress (WMDE)):
[wikidata/query/gui@master] Abbreviate label of links when formatting
Change 360631 abandoned by Jonas Kress (WMDE):
Abbreviate label of links when formatting
This came up a couple of days ago in discussion again on the wikidata Telegram channel, with several people wishing it was possible, since "displaying the whole url often breaks the table layout".
@LucasWerkmeister noted that a couple of other tickets have discussed making aspects of the table view more configurable, viz T223736#5503032 and T227702#5498545
@Nikki suggested that the whenever there was a pair of columns ?variable and ?variableText, then if ?variable was a url and ?variableText was text, the UI could present them in a single column with the latter as link text.
This was well-received, and welcomed as a proposal that seemed sensible and intuitive.
By whom? I don’t see any reaction to that message in the Telegram channel (the discussion seems to have wound down after it).
Also, we already use ?variable and ?variableLabel for a combined value in several other result views, so I don’t think we should introduce ?variableText doing effectively the same thing as ?variableLabel. I still think result view options are the way to go – but rather than having the user specify the variables to combine (as proposed in T227702#5498905), perhaps it should just be a flag: if it is set (by default it would stay unset), then the table view should combine any ?variable and ?variableLabel variables it sees, just like other result views already do by default.
I can see that being quite annoying if you want to include an ID and a URL in your results. For me, wanting URLs to not mess up the table is completely separate from whether I want to display IDs in the results. I don't particularly care what the link text is for a URL is or what the variable is called, I just want URLs to be shorter.
I'm not a fan of doing it via result view options because something as basic as being able to include URLs in a query without messing up the table layout should be simple to do. I have to look up how the result view options are supposed to work every single time I try to use them and it seems to involve manually writing JSON which can hardly be considered simple.