Hello all,
As planned, the change has now been deployed on
wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org .
Feel free to test your tools and let us know if you encounter any issue.
Cheers,
Léa
On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 12:11, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hello all,
This change is relevant for everyone using the *wbeditentity* endpoint of
Wikidata’s API.
While working on editing the termbox from mobile, we discovered a bug in
our code of the wbeditentity endpoint, that does not conform with the
implicit interpretation of the documentation
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/docs/change-op-serializations.wiki$46>.
A request including {"aliases":{"en":[]}} should, according to the
implicit interpretation of its documentation, replace all aliases in
English by an empty string, meaning removing all aliases. However, at the
moment this action is not actually performed, meaning that this request
would leave the aliases untouched.
We want to fix this bug, because we need this request to work in order to
be able to remove all aliases also in the new termbox on mobile. We are
treating this bug fix as a breaking change because the documentation was
ambiguous, and there may be some tools currently sending requests with
empty alias arrays when nothing need to be touched, intentionally or not.
If you are maintaining a tool, please *inspect your tool usage of
wbeditentity endpoint*, and make sure that no calls with empty alias
arrays are sent unless the intention is to remove these aliases.
According to our breaking change policy, this bug fix will be first
deployed on
beta.wikidata.org later on May 28th, then on
wikidata.org on *June
12th*.
If you have any question or issue, feel free to discuss in the related
ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203337>.
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
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 27/029/42207.