Hi all!
This is an announcement for a significant (but not breaking) change to the
JSON output of WikibaseLexeme entities, specifically of Senses and Forms,
when obtained via Special:EntityData
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData> or the Wikibase API
endpoints like Special:ApiHelp/wbgetentities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/wbgetentities>.
The Snak output in the Wikibase JSON serialization
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/md_docs_topics_json.html#json_snaks>
usually contains a datatype field for each Snak. Previously, these fields
were missing for statements within Senses and Forms of a Lexeme – see
the message
on Project Chat
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1258923595#[Significant_change]_New_datatype_fields_in_Lexeme_JSON_output>
for an example (I didn’t want to bloat this email too much by including it
here 🙂). Starting on 26 August 2020 (barring unexpected deployment issues; 25
August 2020 on Test Wikidata), these datatype fields will be present there
as well.
If you have any issue or question, feel free to leave a comment at T249206
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249206>.
Cheers,
Lucas
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