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.
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"?
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)?
Cheers,
Markus
On 31.08.2015 17:53, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
Hi everyone :)
We've finally done all the groundwork for unit support. I'd love for you to give the first version a try on the test system here: http://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Q23950
There are a few known issues still but since this is one of the things holding back Wikidata I made the call to release now and work on these remaining things after that. What I know is still missing:
- We're showing the label of the item of the unit. We should be
showing the symbol of the unit in the future. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77983)
- We can't convert between units yet - we only have the groundwork for
it so far. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77978)
- The items representing often-used units should be ranked higher in
the selector. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110673)
- When editing an existing value you see the URL of unit's item. This
should be replaced by the label. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110675)
- When viewing a diff of a unit change you see the URL of the unit's
item. This should be replaced by the label. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108808)
- We need to think some more about the automatic edit summaries for
unit-related changes. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108807)
If you find any bugs or if you are missing other absolutely critical things please let me know here or file a ticket on phabricator.wikimedia.org. If everything goes well we can get this on Wikidata next Wednesday.
Cheers Lydia