On 19.12.2012 16:47, Gregor Hagedorn wrote: > Daniel confirms (in separate mail) that Wikidata indeed intends to > convert any derived SI units to a common formula of base units. > > Example: a quantity like "1013 hektopascal", the common unit for > meterological barometric pressure (this used to be millibar), would be > stored and re-displayed as > 1.013 10^5 kg⋅m−1⋅s−2
Converted and stored, yes, but not displayed. For display, it would be converted to a customary/convenient unit according to the user's (or client site's) locale, using a bit of heuristics to get the scale (order of magnitude) right. Of course, in wikitext, the desired output unit can be specified. -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
