Hi there,
I'm currently working on a .NET implementation of Wikibase API client, and
have some (perhaps somewhat trivial) questions
Take the API response for wbgetentities on Q513
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=wbgetentities&forma
t=json&uselang=en&ids=Q513&redirects=yes&props=claims&normalize=1>
for
example. In the response, we have a claim
.
"P625": [
{
"mainsnak": {
"snaktype": "value",
"property": "P625",
"hash": "72a03bd4ecbba1e7d0e0dfc2779ceccf9b2e0bcb",
"datavalue": {
"value": {
"latitude": 27.988055555556,
"longitude": 86.925277777778,
"altitude": null,
"precision": 0.00027777777777778,
"globe": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2"
},
"type": "globecoordinate"
},
"datatype": "globe-coordinate"
},
"type": "statement",
"id": "q513$6dcddd25-48a6-229a-0e36-31b122c2c813",
"rank": "normal",
"references": [
{
.
1. Is "altitude" attribute in "globe-coordinate" property type
still in
use? I saw this attribute in the API responses, but as far as I can observe,
they are always null. Is this attribute either reserved for future use or
obsoleted? (I've opened T177269 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177269>
but later thought that maybe mail list is more appropriate for this.)
2. Currently the "type" (in "datavalue" node) and
"datatype" attributes
seems somewhat duplicate, are you planning to make it possible for one
"datatype" to support some other "type"s, to some extent similar to
polymorphism?
Regards,
Xinyan