Hi everyone,
I've been thinking more about this and we also discussed this within the development team. Here's my thinking at this point:
* We do have data that you all want to see in Wikidata that is currently prevented by the limit. That is not good. * I agree that the general understanding of all of us is very good when it comes to Wikidata not being the place to store long free texts. However I still fear that especially new people initially do not understand this. We could mitigate this by for example giving the user a hint when their input is getting too long even if it is still within the limit. Twitter does this in a nice way when you are getting close to the 140 character limit. However that is not implemented right now. * I do worry about licensing and copyright issues with especially the following properties: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2795 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1683 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1684 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2315 I took a rough survey of for me potentially troublesome properties and it seems they are all monolingual text. I am not worried about increasing external identifier and URL. It looks like string is also okish at this point in time.
Based on this my proposal is to increase string and URL and potentially external identifier if you request it. One open question is still what the new limit should be.
Cheers Lydia