agray added a comment.
A way to get access in WDQS to "original calendar" values would really be helpful. At the moment, we're in an odd situation where the dates in WDQS are technically correct by ISO 8601 (I think), but most users interested in looking at historic data won't be familiar with the convention of ISO 8601, and will either use them without realising they're not being displayed in the calendar they expect, or spot that they're all wrong and get confused/irritated/etc. (Worse, people may change dates to be incorrectly marked as Gregorian in order to make them "show up" correctly. I haven't seen much of this, thankfully, but I am sure it does happen). I don't think defaulting to Gregorian is a problem in and of itself, but we do need a way to bypass it. Ideally, I think, what WDQS would be able to do is: - if asked, display a date in its //original// calendar schema, and tell you what that calendar is (either as an additional value or with something like the WD superscript) - if asked, render a date in a //specified// calendar schema, either Julian or Gregorian, and tell you which one is being displayed (either as an additional value or with something like the WD superscript) The first of these is the key problem, as it affects every pre-1582 date; for these, WDQS cannot currently display a human-readable date that is what a human would expect. The second would be really helpful during periods where some countries use it and some don't, as there will be queries where you're legitimately expecting a mix of calendars in the responses and (depending on context) may want to standardise a timeline on Julian rather than Gregorian. But it's not as vital. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246731 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: agray Cc: agray, Gehel, Toni_001, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Mahir256, Tagishsimon, Aklapper, CBogen, Akuckartz, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, Namenlos314, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Jonas, Xmlizer, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, Mbch331
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