Removed from the instructions. They were removed before adding statements
anyway.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:49 PM Thiemo Mättig <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the "definition" at Magnus'
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php is outdated.
> Magnus, can you please remove the leading zeros from the year?
>
> Padding years to 11 digits is not done any more. For a while there was no
> padding at all in the backend, while some documentation talked about 16
> digits and the frontend still padded to 11 digits. All at the same time.
> :-( We fixed this about a year ago and decided to always pad years to 4
> digits because this minimizes storage space while being the most convenient
> strategy for users.
>
> Best
> Thiemo
>
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