That was discussed and declined a while ago, see
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126862>. Though I think the proposed
realization was presentational rather than functional. I'll have to re-read the
discussion, though.

Am 08.10.2016 um 12:07 schrieb Thomas Douillard:
> Probably a silly question but ... did you all consider creating a datatype for
> molecue representation ? This seem to be a very similar usecase than 
> mathematica
> formula. Essentially we're not dealing with a raw string but a representation 
> of
> molecule formulas, with its own encoding ...
> 
> Changing the limit seem to be a poor workaround to a dedicated datatype - 
> nobody
> seems to have found a relevant usecase and it seem to me that we're 
> essentially
> abusing strings for storing blobs ...
> 
> 2016-10-08 11:33 GMT+02:00 Egon Willighagen <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Lydia Pintscher
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> wrote:
> 
>         On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Egon Willighagen
>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> wrote:
>         > Ah, those numbers are for 
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P234
>         <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P234> ...
> 
>         External identifier then. Cool. And for string like in
>         https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P233
>         <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P233>? Sebastian's initial 
> email 
> 
>         says 1500 to 2000. Is this still a good number after this discussion?
> 
> 
>     Yes, that would cover more than 99.9% of all InChIs in PubChem. (See
>     Sebastian's reply earlier in this thread.)
> 
>     Egon
> 
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