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.
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