Hey folks :) On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hey folks :) > > Are you a tool author relying on dumps or Special:Export or use Lua on > Wikidata to access data in items? Please read on. > The JSON format returned by the API and what we use to store the data > internally has been different for a long time. This has been a > headache as people had to deal with two different JSON serializations. > We've fixed this now to only use one. This means the format you get in > the XML dumps, via Special:Export and when accessing the raw item page > content via Lua will change to be the same as what you get from the > API. We plan to deploy this change on August 26th. > > This is one of the remaining blockers for statements on properties and > further progress on Commons support. > > I'm sorry for the disruption. If you need help with adapting your > tools please let me know.
This change is now live on test.wikidata.org. Please take some time this weekend and help test this thoroughly. We've done our best but something might have slipped through and it'd be pretty bad if we don't catch it before it goes on wikidata.org. Edit a bit and let me know about anything strange please. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
