mkroetzsch added a comment.
Re parsing strings: You are skipping the first step here. The question is not which format is better for advanced interpretation, but which format is specified at all. Whatever your proposal is, I have not seen any //syntactic// description of if yet. If -- in addition to having a specified syntax -- it can also be parsed for more complex features, that's a nice capability. But let's maybe start by saying what the proposed "structured data" format actually is. Re multilingual text: There is nothing controversial about the technical aspects you refer to. One could make all complex datatypes we have into items and only use primitive datatypes instead. There are many reasons against this, so we decided to have datatypes instead for representing complex value objects. It is a pity that you are not trying to explain what you propose but focus on attacking current proposals instead (how Wikidata editors store chemical formulas now, how the multilingual text datatype was planned). Since you are not providing much details, I have now also reviewed the gerrit patch. There is nothing in there that would enable you to search for "the nucleon masses of atoms which co-occur with at least 6 carbon atoms". The input text is simply sent to a LaTeX formatter like mathematical markup. There is no semantic interpretation or structured data there at all. There is also no syntax specification in this part of the code, so it seems the specification is "whatever the current version of MediaWiki does with text in ce-tags". All the doubts I raised in my first post remain valid. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126862 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: mkroetzsch Cc: ArthurPSmith, mkroetzsch, Chemical-Markup, gerritbot, daniel, Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, Physikerwelt, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, Prod, aude, fredw, Pkra, scfc, Mbch331, Ltrlg _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
