One other usecase for this would be citation URLs. For example, to get the number of inhabitants of all Dutch municipalities you need a 800-character (1) permalink from the central bureau of statistics.
So this change would be very welcome indeed! -- Hay (1): http://statline.cbs.nl/Statweb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=37230NED&D1=0&D2=57-60,63-65,67-71,73,75-77,81-82,84-86,88-91,93-97,100,102-105,109-110,112-119,121,124-126,129-131,133-135,137-143,145-152,154-156,158-159,161-162,165-168,170-171,173-176,178-183,186-196,198,200-201,203-204,206-208,210-214,216,219,221,225-232,234-238,240-241,243-247,249-251,253-257,259-262,264-268,270-276,279,281-285,288-301,303-308,310-311,316-318,320-321,323-326,332-333,335-336,338-340,342,345-348,350-351,353,355-356,358-360,365,367,369,371,373,376-380,382-387,389-394,396-399,401,403-410,412-420,424-430,432,435-438,440-442,444-445,449,452-456,459,461-465,467-469,471,473-475,477-480,483-487,490-494,496-501,503-509,511-518,520-526,528,530-531,534-538,541,543-545,547,549,551-556,559-561,563-564,566-567,569-572,575-578,580-581,583,586-594&D3=182&HD=160518-1036&HDR=G2&STB=G1,T On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Sebastian Burgstaller <sebastian.burgstal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I think this topic might have been discussed many months ago. For > certain data types in the chemical compound space (P233, canonical > smiles, P2017 isomeric smiles and P234 Inchi key) a higher character > limit than 400 would be really helpful (1500 to 2000 chars (I sense > that this might cause problems with SPARQL)). Are there any plans on > implementing this? In general, for quality assurance, many string > property types would profit from a fixed max string length. > > Best, > Sebastian > > Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD > Research Associate > Andrew Su Lab > MEM-216, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine > The Scripps Research Institute > 10550 North Torrey Pines Road > La Jolla, CA 92037 > @sebotic > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
