Thank you for the announcement Mohammed.
For the audience of the XML Data Dumps list, I wanted to clarify that this
breaking change is for the Wikidata lexeme dumps
<https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/>, and not for the XML
Data Dumps <https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html>.
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Xabriel J. Collazo Mojica (he/him, pronunciation
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xabriel_Collazo_Mojica_-_pronunciation.ogg>
)
Sr Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:35 PM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai <
mohammed.abdulai(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
(*apologies for cross-posting*)
Hello,
This is a breaking change announcement relevant to those working with
Lexeme dumps.
In Lexeme dumps, "senses" and "forms" values, when not empty, are
shown as
arrays. When these lists are empty, they are currently displayed as
objects. For example, values with content are displayed in array format:
"senses":[{"id":"L4-S1",...]
but empty values are treated as objects: "senses":{}
However, empty lists should be presented as arrays as well: "senses":[]
In this change, empty lists of forms and senses will be switched from
objects to arrays. This adjustment makes the dumps more consistent and
matches the same way non-empty values are presented. We will roll this
change out on February 8th.
We anticipate the impact of this change to be minimal and harmless for
most use cases. Therefore, we haven't generated a test dump, as it would
demand substantial resources and time. If you have any questions or
concerns about this change, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us in
this ticket (T305660 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305660>).
Cheers,
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Mohammed S. Abdulai
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