Automatically create redirects when merging items
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	daniel
	Nov 29 2013, 3:11 PM

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Automatically create redirects when merging items

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	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase	master	+199 -36	Merging items creates redirect

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T68067 Support Redirects between Items (tracking)
Resolved	Lucie	T59745 Automatically create redirects when merging items
Resolved	None	T59744 Implement Redirects in ItemContent
Resolved	None	T40962 Design and decide how redirects should work
Resolved	None	T68831 Extend ChangeNotifier to cover functionality currently implemented in static hook functions
Resolved	None	T67594 Create EntityChangeFactory
Resolved	None	T64493 Remove save(), getPage() and related methods from EntityContent
Resolved	None	T64210 deprecate EntityContent::save() (fix lots of tests)
Resolved	daniel	T63264 Implement EntityStore service
Resolved	None	T64211 EditEntity should use EntityStore
Resolved	None	T64491 Repo API modules should not depend on EntityContent
Resolved	None	T68026 Introduce EntityContentDiff class
Resolved	None	T68024 Factor entity content serialization out of EntityContent (and friends)
Resolved	None	T68028 Untangle DataUpdates to be applied when editing or deleting an Entity
Resolved	None	T68030 Review all uses of EntityContent::getEntity()
Resolved	None	T70730 Factor interaction logic out of MergeItems API module, for re-use in SpecialMergeItems
Declined	Lydia_Pintscher	T91415 Optionally create redirect after clean merge via MergeItems API module or special page.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 2:30 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseRepository.

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daniel created this task.Nov 29 2013, 3:11 PM

matej_suchanek added a subscriber: matej_suchanek.Nov 24 2014, 2:46 PM

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Stryn added a subscriber: Stryn.Dec 4 2014, 7:56 PM

ValterVB added a subscriber: ValterVB.Dec 5 2014, 7:47 PM

I'd like to get some community feedback if we should still spend time on this or if it is ok the way things are now.

According to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ShortPages there are still some issues left.

I would love to see this fixed to just get it over with. I have a list of items at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Multichill/To_redirect that have recently be emptied out to be redirected, but the item was not redirected. Just updated it and again about 1600 items on there.

Ok thanks.

Lydia_Pintscher moved this task from incoming to needs discussion or investigation on the Wikidata board.Dec 28 2014, 10:52 AM

And how about automatically Fixing the Double-Redirects of items?

That is T71167

Addshore added a subscriber: Addshore.Jan 17 2015, 9:02 PM

matej_suchanek added a subtask: T91415: Optionally create redirect after clean merge via MergeItems API module or special page..Mar 3 2015, 9:00 PM

Lydia_Pintscher closed subtask T91415: Optionally create redirect after clean merge via MergeItems API module or special page. as Declined.Mar 4 2015, 2:08 PM

Lydia_Pintscher moved this task from needs discussion or investigation to ready to go on the Wikidata board.Apr 20 2015, 3:41 PM

Lucie added a subscriber: Lucie.May 28 2015, 11:39 PM

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Change 214917 had a related patch set uploaded (by Lucie Kaffee):
[WIP] Redirect creation when using wbmergeitems

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/214917

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 31 2015, 2:37 PM

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Lydia_Pintscher moved this task from ready to go to consider for next sprint on the Wikidata board.Jun 29 2015, 12:54 PM

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daniel moved this task from Doing to Review on the Wikidata-Sprint-2015-06-30 board.Jul 2 2015, 2:04 PM

Change 214917 merged by jenkins-bot:
Merging items creates redirect

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/214917

daniel mentioned this in rEWBAff9614e01573: Merging items creates redirect.Jul 7 2015, 10:43 AM

Diffusion mentioned this in rMEXT7ed8f4f5fa2f: Updated mediawiki/extensions Project: mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase….Jul 7 2015, 10:43 AM

@Lucie @daniel can this be closed?

@tobi: think so, yea :)

Tobi_WMDE_SW moved this task from Review to Done on the Wikidata-Sprint-2015-06-30 board.Jul 7 2015, 2:27 PM

Yes! \o/

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Um, is this supposed to be fixed? Currently, PLBot still redirects a lot of the items emptied by a merge.

In T59745#6556199, @1234qwer1234qwer4 wrote:

Um, is this supposed to be fixed? Currently, PLBot still redirects a lot of the items emptied by a merge.

I just tested this on test and it seems to still be working.
https://test.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q213482&action=history

Can you provide an example PLBot edit creating a redirect that was not automatically created?

Looking at the first few these edits seem to always leave some descriptions behind which then need to be cleared up https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?diff=1292704464&oldid=1292658459&title=Q25945246

This is intended behaviour when users choose to use the ignoreconflicts option of the wbmergeitems api https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbmergeitems

Change to this behaviour would need a new ticket with @Lydia_Pintscher attached, but right now the behaviour is intentional when used with that param.

What's the point in having ignoreconflicts disabled on merging items through the "Other languages" interface when a) the on-Wikidata merge tool does not and b) PLBot removes the leftover descriptions anyway?

daniel removed a subscriber: daniel.Mar 7 2021, 8:25 PM

In T59745#6889045, @1234qwer1234qwer4 wrote:

What's the point in having ignoreconflicts disabled on merging items through the "Other languages" interface when a) the on-Wikidata merge tool does not and b) PLBot removes the leftover descriptions anyway?

One possibility could be another option for the API to force conflicted things to be removed and a redirect to be created, but that would be a new feature request

Mormegil mentioned this in T270717: “Add links” automatically merges incompatible items on Wikidata.Oct 15 2022, 3:54 PM

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