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In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91505#2015282, @Ricordisamoa wrote: > In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91505#2008209, @Swpb wrote: > > > this discussion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Natural_science#Right_Ascension_.2F_Declination_.2F_Distance> has raised the usefulness of a degrees-minutes-seconds datatype for angular information. > > > The quantity datatype can fulfill that well once precision and custom formatters are supported properly. I don't know if that's true. Right ascension is peculiar - it is typically given in time units (hours, minutes, seconds, and decimal beyond that). Formatting could turn a numerical value (number of seconds, say) into the right sort of string, but how do you handle data entry? Ideally we want somebody to be able to type in values as they find them in an astronomical table, which would be in the hours-minutes-seconds format, not a numeric number of seconds. Is there any proposal to create a data entry formatter that could do that sort of thing? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91505 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: ArthurPSmith Cc: Swpb, ArthurPSmith, gerritbot, Smalyshev, Shrutika719, MGChecker, Sannita, Ricordisamoa, mgrabovsky, Liuxinyu970226, Rits, Physikerwelt, Lydia_Pintscher, Niharika, Aklapper, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331, Jay8g _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
