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TASK DESCRIPTION In English, you can write the 1st of January as "January 1". If you enter that into a date field on Wikidata, it will accept it as valid and there is no indication that it has actually interpreted the "1" as a year. If the user intended the day, since it looks correct, they will save the value, completely unaware that it has been interpreted as something entirely different. I made that mistake and I was able to find examples of it happening to other people, e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17274546, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6522769 and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4996993. One solution would be to always indicate low year numbers (any one or two digit ones, maybe even three digit ones) using eras, so that it's clearer that the year is meant, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drusus_Caesar says "AD 7", https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Penzi says "11 n. Chr.". TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104750 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Nikki Cc: Nikki, Aklapper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Malyacko, P.Copp _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
