Hey folks :)
Next week we will deploy an API change in preparation for support for Wikimedia Commons. wblinktitle will return a prefixed ID starting Tuesday night if there are no complications: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52732 This is necessary as Commons support will break the assumption that our identifiers are always of the form someletter+number like for example Q1234.
Sorry for the disruption. If you need help with adapting your tools please let me know.
Cheers Lydia
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Hi Lydia,
this sounds as a major step for Wikidata, but... can you (or someone else) please explain it a bit further?
I'm doing my part in communicating WD changes to the Italian wiki-communities, and since the Commons issue might be interesting also for other stuff, I'd like to know a bit more.
(Love the kitten)
L.
2014-07-04 17:55 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de:
Hey folks :)
Next week we will deploy an API change in preparation for support for Wikimedia Commons. wblinktitle will return a prefixed ID starting Tuesday night if there are no complications: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52732 This is necessary as Commons support will break the assumption that our identifiers are always of the form someletter+number like for example Q1234.
Sorry for the disruption. If you need help with adapting your tools please let me know.
Cheers Lydia
PS: Jeroen forced me to attach a cat to this email so here you go:
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This simply means that whenever you use action=wblinktitles in the api the ID in the result will now be Q123 instead of just 123!
On 5 July 2014 11:44, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Lydia,
this sounds as a major step for Wikidata, but... can you (or someone else) please explain it a bit further?
I'm doing my part in communicating WD changes to the Italian wiki-communities, and since the Commons issue might be interesting also for other stuff, I'd like to know a bit more.
(Love the kitten)
L.
2014-07-04 17:55 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de:
Hey folks :)
Next week we will deploy an API change in preparation for support for Wikimedia Commons. wblinktitle will return a prefixed ID starting Tuesday night if there are no complications: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52732 This is necessary
as
Commons support will break the assumption that our identifiers are
always of
the form someletter+number like for example Q1234.
Sorry for the disruption. If you need help with adapting your tools
please
let me know.
Cheers Lydia
PS: Jeroen forced me to attach a cat to this email so here you go:
/_/\ =( °w° )= ) ( // (__ __)//
-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Lydia,
this sounds as a major step for Wikidata, but... can you (or someone else) please explain it a bit further?
Adam already did. So this change shouldn't affect the Italian Wikipedia much. It is mostly of concern to people who write apps on top of Wikidata and use the data in Wikidata.
I'm doing my part in communicating WD changes to the Italian wiki-communities, and since the Commons issue might be interesting also for other stuff, I'd like to know a bit more.
About Commons itself I hope we can publish more over the next weeks targeted at the editors on Commons and the other Wikimedia projects. If you have more questions after that please let me know.
(Love the kitten)
:P
Cheers Lydia