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 > > -- > E.L. Willighagen > Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT > Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) > Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ > LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw > <http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw> > Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ > <http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/> > PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers > <http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers> > ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286 > ImpactStory: https://impactstory.org/u/egonwillighagen > <https://impactstory.org/u/egonwillighagen> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
