Hi Anthony, that's the internal data structure, and this is bound to change without notice. I am sorry if this caused trouble.
If this is a common concern, we will start documenting and announcing those changes. It really should only concern the people processing the XML dumps. We would prefer to actually create a more stable output dump of the knowledge - I guess this would be more appreciated (like the RDF dump that Markus has posted about recently). The call to get the item description should have been <https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&format=json&ids=Q1> This should provide you with a more stable answer. Cheers, Denny 2013/8/1 Huidong Zhang <anthonyzh...@google.com> > Hi, > > I noticed that the response from " > http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Q1&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml"; > changed from "entity":"q1" to "entity":["item",1]. > Is this change applied to all pages? > > In the latest wikidata dump ( > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/latest/wikidatawiki-latest-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2), > both formats exist at the same time. For example, page Q100 has: > "entity":["item",100], while page Q100000 has "entity":"q100000". Is it > expected? Will the next dump have same format? > By the way, " > http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Q100000&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml"; > return "entity":["item",100000]. > > Thanks. > > -- > Best wishes, > Anthony Zhang (Huidong Zhang) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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