[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T118498: Rename "DataType" to "PropertyType" across the code base and documentation.

Addshore added a comment. In T118498#4421115, @thiemowmde wrote: Personally, I don't think it makes sense to touch the string datatype in any machine-readable output. (In other words: I don't think this is worth a breaking change.) But I think it makes sense to prefer $propertyType as a variable n

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T118498: Rename "DataType" to "PropertyType" across the code base and documentation.

thiemowmde added a comment. Personally, I don't think it makes sense to touch the string datatype in any machine-readable output. (In other words: I don't think this is worth a breaking change.) But I think it makes sense to prefer $propertyType as a variable name in code, and "property data type"

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T118498: Rename "DataType" to "PropertyType" across the code base and documentation.

Addshore added a comment. In T118498#2308748, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote: We have trained people on datatype now and it is all our user-facing documentation. I think changing this now to introduce yet another term creates more confusion than it resolves. /me agrees In T118498#3132096, @thiemowmde

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T118498: Rename "DataType" to "PropertyType" across the code base and documentation.

Lydia_Pintscher added a comment. We have trained people on datatype now and it is all our user-facing documentation. I think changing this now to introduce yet another term creates more confusion than it resolves. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118498 EMAIL PREFERENCES h