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Store hints about entities in page_props table
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We need an easy way to list all empty entities, and perhaps also other "kinds" of entities, on special pages etc. This could easily be done via the page_props table, we just need to start using it. The page_props table is fed from the ParserOutput object (via LinksUpdate).

So, EntityContent::getParserOutput() should just add the desired info to the ParserOutput - it could be provided by a getPageProps() method or some such.

Initially supported "hints" or "kinds" could be:

  • empty: contains nothing at all
  • stub: consists only of label(s) and description(s) (and maybe also aliases).

There could be more, like "unlinked" for items with no sitelinks.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Whiteboard: u=dev c=backend p=2
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58032

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 12:47 AM
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quick note: I think items should be marked as empty based on EntiyObject::isEmpty(). There should probably a similar EntiyObject::isStub() method, though that one would have to be overridden in the ItemObject subclass.

we could also put the number of sitelinks and claims into page_props, to make it easy to search for entities with no or many sitelinks/claims.

To allow efficient queries over page_props, it would need new indexes, see bug 58032.

Change 99385 had a related patch set uploaded by Daniel Kinzler:
(bug 40157) store entity status in page_props.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/99385

Change 99385 merged by Jeroen De Dauw:
(bug 40157) store entity status in page_props

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/99385