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. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

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.

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