Hey,

The situation with commonsMedia is a bit bad because it should be a URL rather than a string. What I do in wda is effectively a type conversion from string to URI in this particular case. Maybe we can fix this somehow in the future when URIs are supported as a value datatype.

Ok, this makes me somewhat concerned. We do have a IriValue DV [0], which we've had for nearly a year. It is indeed not used for commonsMedia, not sure why. What concerns me is that we are now introducing a "url" data type, which will also just use the string DV, rather then the IRI DV. I'm not very happy with this, though it is what most of the team wants. If there is a problem with this approach, it should be outlined _soon_, since this is something not far from deployment if I understand it correctly.

[0] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-DataValues/blob/master/DataValues/src/IriValue.php

Cheers

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Jeroen De Dauw
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