On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Huidong Zhang <anthonyzhang(a)google.com> wrote:
Hi Lydia,
Thanks for your quick reply.
So the data stored at
wikidata.org repository database will not change, but
the dumps of the database will change?
The internal format will change to be the same as the external one. So
what is stored in the database will change. This is also what you get
through the XML dumps (not the JSON dumps). So those will also change.
What will not change is the external format. This is what you get
through the API for example.
Is it possible to provide 2 kinds of
dumps? One for raw data (in internal JSON serialization format) and one for
data model (in exteranl JSON serialization format).
The whole point of the exercise is to make them the same ;-) The JSON
dumps at
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikidata/ are what we
recommend using and they will not change.
Let me know if there is anything that's still unclear. I know it's a
bit confusing and we should have gone with one serialization format
from the start.
Cheers
Lydia
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