Markus' description of the decision for the limit corresponds with mine. I also think that this decision can be revisited. I would still advice for caution, due to technical issues, but I am sure that the development team will make a well-informed decision on this. It would be sad if valid usecases could not be supported due to that.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:51 AM Markus Kroetzsch < [email protected]> wrote: > On 13.09.2016 11:39, Sebastian Burgstaller 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. > > FWIW, I recall that the main reason for the char limit originally was to > discourage the use of Wikidata for textual content. Simply put, we did > not want Wikipedia articles in the data. Long texts could also make > copyright/license issues more relevant (though, in theory, a copyrighted > poem could be rather short). > > However, given that we now have such a well informed community with > established practices and good quality checks, it seems unproblematic to > lift the character limit. I don't think there are major technical > reasons for having it. Surely, BlazeGraph (the WMF SPARQL engine) should > not expect texts to be short, and I would be surprised if they did. So I > would not expect problems on this side. > > Best, > Markus > > > > > > 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 > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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