Hello Byrial , by taking a look to low level datatypes list : http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes does representing common media files in strings considered to be an in consistency that will be fixed in the next releases ? or just it will stay as this forever ?
another question: if i wanted to get all the datatypes and map them to the parallel xsd types , how can i get an updated list with all wikiData properties and their datatypes not the low level. thanks Regards On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Byrial Jensen <byr...@vip.cybercity.dk>wrote: > Den 21-08-2013 19:45, Hady elsahar skrev: > >> Hello All , >> >> i was looking at WikiData dump , specifically this one : >> wikidatawiki-20130818-pages-**meta-hist-incr.xml.bz2 >> >> then i came to this statement >> >> the property P158 which is the seal flag image . >> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/**Property:P158<http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P158> >> and it's DataType should be "Commons media file" ? not "string" ? >> i'm not sure if it's always the same way and i don't get it , or the >> statement data is not consistent with property datatypes? >> > > The values for properties of type commonsMedia are always stored as > strings. That's why there is no row for commonsMedia in my table at > http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/**User:Byrial/Statement_** > statistics#Properties_after_**their_value_type<http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Byrial/Statement_statistics#Properties_after_their_value_type> > > > another Question : should i usually rely on the datatypes written in the >> json dumps or should i build and index of wkidata properties and their >> datatypes to avoid such situation ? >> > > You need both the datatype of the property (to distinguish ordinary string > values from commonsMedia strings) and the datatype for each stored value > (to know if it is an ordinary value or novalue or somevalue). > > Regards, > - Byrial > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> > -- ------------------------------------------------- Hady El-Sahar Research Assistant Center of Informatics Sciences | Nile University<http://nileuniversity.edu.eg/>
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