[OSM-talk] Fwd: [Wikidata] Significant change: new data type for geoshapes

[James]

very nice.

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forwarding.
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> Pine
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> From: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix at wikimedia.de>
> Date: Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 4:34 AM
> Subject: [Wikidata] Significant change: new data type for geoshapes
> To: wikidata-tech at lists.wikimedia.org, "Discussion list for the Wikidata
> project." <wikidata at lists.wikimedia.org>, pywikibot at lists.wikimedia.org
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> Hello all,
>
> We’ve been working on a new data type that allows you to link to the *geographical
> shapes* that are now stored on Commons. This data type will be deployed
> on Wikidata on *April 17th*.
>
> This data type refers to the geographical shapes that are enabled on
> Wikimedia Commons since the beginning of this year. Here you can find
> more information about this <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps>.
>
> The property creators will be able to create properties with this geoshape
> data type by selecting “Geographical shape” in the data type list.
>
> When the property is created, you can use it in statements, and when
> filling the value, if you start typing a string, you can choose the name of
> a geoshape in the list of what exists on Commons.
>
> [image: Screenshot test geoshape in Wikidata.png]
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_test_geoshape_in_Wikidata.png>
>
>
> One thing to note: We currently do not export statements that use this
> datatype to RDF. They can therefore not be queried in the Wikidata Query
> Service. The reason is that we are still waiting for geoshapes to get
> stable URIs. This is handled in this ticket
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161527>.
>
> Before the deployment, you can test it on http://test.wikidata.org (see
> for example the property “geotest” on Q22
> <https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22>).
> If you have any question, feel free to ask!
>
> Cheers,
>
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