[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] T280174: + is replaced by %2B in external identifiers

Manuel added a comment. @Shisma: Thank you for reporting this! In my opinion, this is not a bug. I have tried to explain why I think so in my previous comment. The consequences of this would be that you enter the external ID in the example as "Newa Folk Music". The "property examples" in

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] T280174: + is replaced by %2B in external identifiers

Manuel added a comment. As far as I can see, external IDs are basically Strings in Wikidata. All characters are allowed, nothing is encoded. This is how we probably should treat actual IDs. The example given struggles with its encoding:

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] T280174: + is replaced by %2B in external identifiers

Manuel added a project: Wikidata-Campsite. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280174 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Manuel Cc: Solidest, Aklapper, Shisma, Invadibot, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] T280174: + is replaced by %2B in external identifiers

Solidest added a comment. Probably such a thing should also bypass % symbols in identifiers. If I try to set identifier **Trap [EDM]** (Q47781397 ) as **Trap%20%5BEDM%D**, it converts it to **Trap%2520%255BEDM%255D**, where each % changes to %25. I

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] T280174: + is replaced by %2B in external identifiers

Shisma created this task. Shisma added a project: Wikidata. Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. TASK DESCRIPTION The link here: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q7016547=1401635783#P9173 should point to https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Newa+Folk+Music