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TASK DESCRIPTION When undertaking a general search within Wikidata the search results for people is pretty useless to readily identify people, and requires you to repeatedly drill down into items to explore the data when trying to match and avoid duplicates, and the more common a name, the more challenging it becomes. Example https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=peter%20smith&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns12=1&ns120=1&ns122=1 Some people have taken to adding (yyyy-yyyy) into description fields to give functionality, however, we have the data in the item, we should be needing to retype it. It also complicates that process and those fields. There is no ready means to search the Wikidata based on name and years of life to focus on people searches either on specific year or general year, or period of living., so ... POTENTIAL SOLUTION change the data output. When people items are returned in a search result, if the years of life were able to be returned as well as the name and the description field this would give a more useful and usable search result. Search should not be hunt and peck, or give a general indication, it should be returning data that can be interpreted. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251054 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Billinghurst Cc: Aklapper, Billinghurst, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331, DannyS712
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