[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Updated] T143970: In Lua modules, there is no way to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs

hoo added a comment. In T143970#4134300, @Ahecht wrote: mw.wikibase.entityExists('Q404') returns false Indeed, and that is IMO a bug. I just opened T192462: mw.wikibase.entityExists returns false for redirected entities for this.TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143970EMAIL

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Updated] T143970: In Lua modules, there is no way to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs

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[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Updated] T143970: In Lua modules, there is no way to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs

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[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Updated] T143970: In Lua modules, there is no way to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs

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[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Updated] T143970: In Lua modules, there is no way to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs

Uzume added a comment. We need a resolveEntityId(eid) that returns nil when there is no such entity. It should also handle redirects from merged items, etc. (also solving T157868). It could also potentially work like resolvePropertyId and return a valid entity ID when given an unambiguous label or

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Updated] T143970: In Lua modules, there is no way to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs

hoo added subscribers: daniel, aude, Lucie, hoo.hoo removed a project: MediaWiki-extensions-Scribunto.hoo added a comment. I see that implementing this in user land code is not trivial (my approach didn't properly check the numerical part of the ids). Also re-implementing this becomes a mess with

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Updated] T143970: In Lua modules, there is no way to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs

matej_suchanek added a parent task: T112073: Lua in Wikibase (tracking). TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143970EMAIL PREFERENCEShttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/To: matej_suchanekCc: Evad37, Aklapper, D3r1ck01, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Dinoguy1000,