(in particular because I expect that character limit to have to change for Wiktionary in Wikidata)
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:38 AM Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Markus' description of the decision for the limit corresponds with mine. I > also think that this decision can be revisited. I would still advice for > caution, due to technical issues, but I am sure that the development team > will make a well-informed decision on this. It would be sad if valid > usecases could not be supported due to that. > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:51 AM Markus Kroetzsch < > markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de> wrote: > >> On 13.09.2016 11:39, Sebastian Burgstaller wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I think this topic might have been discussed many months ago. For >> > certain data types in the chemical compound space (P233, canonical >> > smiles, P2017 isomeric smiles and P234 Inchi key) a higher character >> > limit than 400 would be really helpful (1500 to 2000 chars (I sense >> > that this might cause problems with SPARQL)). Are there any plans on >> > implementing this? In general, for quality assurance, many string >> > property types would profit from a fixed max string length. >> >> FWIW, I recall that the main reason for the char limit originally was to >> discourage the use of Wikidata for textual content. Simply put, we did >> not want Wikipedia articles in the data. Long texts could also make >> copyright/license issues more relevant (though, in theory, a copyrighted >> poem could be rather short). >> >> However, given that we now have such a well informed community with >> established practices and good quality checks, it seems unproblematic to >> lift the character limit. I don't think there are major technical >> reasons for having it. Surely, BlazeGraph (the WMF SPARQL engine) should >> not expect texts to be short, and I would be surprised if they did. So I >> would not expect problems on this side. >> >> Best, >> Markus >> >> >> > >> > Best, >> > Sebastian >> > >> > Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD >> > Research Associate >> > Andrew Su Lab >> > MEM-216, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine >> > The Scripps Research Institute >> > 10550 North Torrey Pines Road >> > La Jolla, CA 92037 >> > @sebotic >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikidata mailing list >> > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >
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