Hello all, Quick update: the date of deployment on wikidata.org has been postponed to Monday, June 17th. For more information or to ask questions, see this Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203337>. Cheers, Léa
On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 17:37, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacr...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hello all, > As planned, the change has now been deployed on wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org > . Feel free to test your tools and let us know if you encounter any issue. > Cheers, > Léa > > On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 12:11, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacr...@wikimedia.de> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> This change is relevant for everyone using the *wbeditentity* endpoint >> of Wikidata’s API. >> >> While working on editing the termbox from mobile, we discovered a bug in >> our code of the wbeditentity endpoint, that does not conform with the >> implicit interpretation of the documentation >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWBA/browse/master/docs/change-op-serializations.wiki$46>. >> >> >> A request including {"aliases":{"en":[]}} should, according to the >> implicit interpretation of its documentation, replace all aliases in >> English by an empty string, meaning removing all aliases. However, at the >> moment this action is not actually performed, meaning that this request >> would leave the aliases untouched. >> >> We want to fix this bug, because we need this request to work in order to >> be able to remove all aliases also in the new termbox on mobile. We are >> treating this bug fix as a breaking change because the documentation was >> ambiguous, and there may be some tools currently sending requests with >> empty alias arrays when nothing need to be touched, intentionally or not. >> >> If you are maintaining a tool, please *inspect your tool usage of >> wbeditentity endpoint*, and make sure that no calls with empty alias >> arrays are sent unless the intention is to remove these aliases. >> >> According to our breaking change policy, this bug fix will be first >> deployed on beta.wikidata.org later on May 28th, then on wikidata.org on >> *June >> 12th*. >> >> If you have any question or issue, feel free to discuss in the related >> ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203337>. >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Léa Lacroix >> Project Manager Community Communication 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 27/029/42207. >> > > > -- > Léa Lacroix > Project Manager Community Communication 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 27/029/42207. > -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.
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