On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Lukas Benedix <bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi, > > the handling of double Entries is strange. The warning, that you created an > allready existing Item comes up very late. > > What I did: > > Search for "Käsebrot" -> not found > Create a new Item > > enter Label: "Käsebrot" > enter Description: "ein Brot mit einem Belag aus Käse" > > Add "Also known as": "Käsestulle" > try to add a Link to de:Käsebrot > > get the following Error-Message: "An error occurred while trying to perform > save and because of this, your changes could not be completed." > click Details: Edit not allowed: Site link [[dewiki:Käsebrot]] already used > by item [[Q1795455]]. > > > That is quite frustrating... It took seven steps until I get informed about > the Error I made. > > I figured out, that you only check for double Entries when you enter a Label > and a Description in the currently selected language in the second Step. > That check is also a check for bitwise equality. One different character in > the description and you get no warning. If the desctiption and Label equals > to an existing item you get the following Error-Message: "Another item > (3220891) already has label "Käsebrot" and description "ein Brot mit einem > Belag aus Käse" associated with language code en". > > I think you should: > > enable the search for Item-Labels > check the Label when creating a new Item > add Links to the existing Item in the error-messages
Yes. http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ItemByTitle is helpful until then. > After my tests there are several Items with the Label "Käsebrot", I'm sorry > for that. Please list them on http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
