Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Wikidata/Duplicates and merge candidates

Duplicates and merge candidates

  • Problem: There is an increasing number of items that are empty or possible duplicates
  • Who would benefit: Wikidata editors
  • Proposed solution: Improve on prior art like Projectmerge to detect duplicates not only by labels but by comparing properties and links with other items; migrate the WD:DNM do not merge lists to something more usable (example suggested in the discussion page, migrate to P1889 statements
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Sabas88 (talk) 12:38, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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