Hello all,

We’ve been working on a new data type that allows you to link to the tabular data files that are now stored on Commons. This data type will be deployed on Wikidata on May 15th.

The property creators will be able to create properties with this tabular data type by selecting “tabular data” in the data type list.

When the property is created, you can use it in statements, and when filling the value, if you start typing a string, you can choose the name of a file in the list of what exists on Commons.

Before the deployment, you can test it on http://test.wikidata.org (example).

One thing to note: We currently do not export statements that use this datatype to RDF. They can therefore not be queried in the Wikidata Query Service. The reason is that we are still waiting for tabular data files to get stable URIs. This is handled in this ticket.