Last modified: 2013-11-04 12:30:56 UTC
Please add a note showing the number of values a property has. Reason: If an item has a property with a lot of values it would often be nice to see how many values there are, without counting them by hand.
I assume this is about a group of statements using the same property in an item? That is in Washington, D.C. (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61?uselang=en) there is a "shares border with" and that has two entries, while "country" has one entry. What would be the use case for this except "nice to have"?
Yes, this is what I mean. It use would be for properties with a lot of values, for example the 67 moons of Jupiter. (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319) There this would help to see, if this statement is complete and up to date without having to count them by hand or comparing the list manually with a source. but you are right, this isn't very important and more a nice to have.
Maybe a Javascript can fix this as a gadget.
Should this be similar to the count for Sitelinks? ie. Wikipedia pages linked to this item (176 entries) and then shares border with (2 entries) child astronomical body (67 entries)
Addshore: Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking about.
I'm sorry but this will have to be done as a gadget. I am fighting hard to get things removed from the UI to reduce the clutter and information overload at the moment.
