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>.
-- 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.abdu...@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, > -- > Mohammed S. Abdulai > *Community Communications Manager, Wikidata* > > Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 > https://wikimedia.de > > Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly. > > A lot is happening around Wikidata - Keep up to date! > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates> Current news and > exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our > newsletter (in German): Subscribe now > <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! > https://spenden.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg, VR 23855 B. > Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, > Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine, > Dr. Christian Humborg > _______________________________________________ > Xmldatadumps-l mailing list -- xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to xmldatadumps-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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