Hi!
In order to fix a compatibility issue
(
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174930) and make the URI more clean,
the URI underlying mwapi: prefix in WDQS queries will be changed to
https://www.mediawiki.org/ontology#API/. This URI is not used anywhere
in the data, but only to designate parameters for MWAPI services[1].
Since this is not change in data but only in service prefixes/URIs,
there should not be any impact except for any queries that may use full
URI instead of mwapi: prefix for calling the services - such queries
will have to be updated. There's no real reason to do it and I recommend
to never do it and follow the examples in the manual[1] instead, but out
of the abundance of caution I am announcing this change anyway.
The change will likely be deployed in next Monday, in the usual WDQS
deployment window[2].
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual/MWAPI
[2]
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org