For consistency the wikipedia api should probably also return an upper case wikibase_item for the pageprops query [1]
/André [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&format=json&redirects=&titles=Wikidata On 10 September 2013 12:11, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all. > > > With today's deployment, the Wikibase API modules used on wikidata.orgwill > change from using lower-case IDs (q12345) to upper-case IDs (Q12345). This > is > done for consistency with the way IDs are shown in the UI and used in URLs. > > The API will continue to accept entity IDs in lower-case as well as > upper-case. > Any bot or other client that has no property or item IDs hardcoded or > configured > in lower case should be fine. > > If however your code looks for some specific item or property in the output > returned from the API, and it's using a lower-case ID to do so, it may now > fail > to match the respective ID. > > There is potential for similar problems with Lua code, depending on how > the data > structure is processed by Lua. We are working to minimize the impact there. > > Sorry for the short notice. > > Please test your code against test.wikidata.org and let us know if you > find any > issues. > > > Thanks, > Daniel > > > PS: issue report on bugzilla: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53894 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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