Smalyshev added a comment.
Changing this would require full DB reload, so I would like to make it (if we do it) at the same time as we enable geospatial indexing (which will require full DB reload too, regardless). Which means probably sometime in April, if everything goes well, or later if we encounter problems. That would also mean we have to deploy the change before that, meaning running for certain time with mixed data. I'll make provisions on WDQS side to enable that. Since we'll have to do full reload anyway (and there's one more reason for it since we need to install new diskspace and reimage for better LVS anyway) we may as well use this opportunity to clean it up. It will need to be done very carefully and while we are in transition there may be some glitches but I think if we are going to do maintenance anyway it's a good opportunity. I don't think many use coordinate data from Wikidata dumps in WKT as is right now. However, if we claim WKT, we should do as WKT implementations do, or claim different format. And earlier we do it, the better - with the confines of the above said. Either that or choose some other format. I know it's unfortunate So my plan would be to make it so that we make decision about switching ASAP (I recommend switching, but we need to reach consensus here I think) and then implement and commit it before end of March, so it can be deployed and new dumps could be generated before we do the maintenance. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130049 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Smalyshev Cc: Haasepeter, Lydia_Pintscher, M.schmidt00, mkroetzsch, daniel, Aklapper, Smalyshev, debt, Gehel, D3r1ck01, FloNight, Izno, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Deskana, Manybubbles, Mbch331 _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
