rename link texts for SpecialPages to account for Schemas
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Problem:
We have several SpecialPages on Special:SpecialPages that are specific to certain entity types but have a generic link text. With the addition of Schemas these become confusing. We need to change the link text to be more specific.

The following link text changes are needed:

Set a description -> Set Item/Property description
Set a label -> Set Item/Property label
Set a sitelink -> Set Item sitelink
Set aliases -> Set Item/Property aliases
Set label, description and aliases -> Set Item/Property label, description and aliases

Example:
See the Wikibase section on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages

Acceptance criteria:

All link texts are clearly identifying the specific entity types for the above SpecialPages.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Rename link texts for SpecialPages to account for Schemas	mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase	master	+5 -5

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Lydia_Pintscher created this task.Feb 21 2019, 3:03 PM

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Lydia_Pintscher moved this task from Incoming to Ready to estimate on the Wikidata-Campsite board.Feb 21 2019, 3:04 PM

Those names seem quite long.

How about making some new headings?

Wikibase General
- Change dispatch statistics
- Entity Data
- Entity Page
- List of all data types available
- My language fallback chain
Wikibase Items
- Available badges
- Create new
- Without label
- Without description
- Go to linked page
- Item by title
- Items without sitelinks
- Merge
- Redirect
- Set a description
- Set a label
- Set aliases
- Set label, description and aliases
- Set a sitelink
Wikibase Properties
- Create new
- Without label
- Without description
- List of Properties
- Redirect
- Set a description
- Set a label
- Set aliases
- Set label, description and aliases
Wikibase Lexemes
- Create new
- Merge
- Redirect

Wait, special pages can be under more than one heading?

If we were to go that way, we could make a "Wikibase Schemas" heading as well.

In T216719#4972626, @Michael wrote:

Wait, special pages can be under more than one heading?

If we were to go that way, we could make a "Wikibase Schemas" heading as well.

Technically it is possible yes, and there are probably a few different ways of doing it:

have a generic special page class, which just redirects you to another special name, then you can register multiple pages in $wgSpecialPages which all point to the same real page.
have subclasses of the generic special page / allow setting the title / name in the constructor, this would allow you to pass the full page into $wgSpecialPages (instead of just a redirect)

The first option is probably better, as it allows the old names to continue to be used etc Special:SetLabel.

on the whole there is a little bit to think about but it wouldn't be too much work. I would be pro a reorganization if we think we need it.

This would cause quite a bit of redundancy for just keeping the names short. I don't think any special page so far is mentioned twice on Special:SpecialPages. In addition we'd add a lot of new headings that i'm not sure would be appreciated. I think we should keep it simple.

I would also keep this simple for now to solve the confusion, and think of reorganization later if that makes sense.

To make names shorter but still non-confusing, I'd maybe rephrase to:

that text will make them also appear together alphabetically

That works for me.

Awesome.. updated description

• Greta_Doci_WMDE claimed this task.Feb 25 2019, 11:25 AM

Change 492650 had a related patch set uploaded (by Greta WMDE; owner: Greta Doçi):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Rename link texts for SpecialPages to account for Schemas

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/492650

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Change 492650 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Rename link texts for SpecialPages to account for Schemas

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/492650

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.19; 2019-02-26).Feb 25 2019, 5:00 PM