On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
Hi,
Great news, but I have some questions ;-) It seems that the unit can be any IRI that starts with http or https, even if not referring to an entity of the wiki.
I want this to be restricted to Wikidata items for Wikidata itself. Still on the todo list.
Then what happens with the "unit":"1" that currently we have in JSON? It seems that one cannot enter this string in the field, and I guess it would (rightly) be invalid as a unit. Will Wikibase continue to use this (invalid) string as a placeholder for "no unit"?
Good question. What would be preferred by you and others?
If every wiki needs to define its own unit items to see labels, how is data exchange supposed to work? Will the RDF export then contain a different IRI for "meter" when exporting data from Wikidata and from Commons (or whatever other future instance)?
The idea is to allow 3rd party wikis to use Wikidata items for units in the future.
Cheers Lydia