Remove Wikidata-based types/functions that were created in Wikifunctions.org
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	Jul 31 2024, 3:28 AM

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6 new Wikidata-based types and some related functions and implementations, listed below, were recently created using the Wikifunctions.org UI.
For technical reasons, these types and functions need to be predefined; that is, their definitions have to be loaded from the function-schemata repository, and they need to have ZIDs < 10,000.

The new predefined definitions now exist in a couple of patches, the content of which was based on the wiki-defined versions, so the wiki-defined versions should be removed. Here are the ZIDs of the wiki-defined versions to be removed (including 6 type definitions, 8 converter functions, 2 equality functions, 4 implementations):

Delete from wiki
- Z17800 - Z17812, inclusive
- Z17885 - Z17891, inclusive
Delete from function-schemata
- Z7138, Z7139, Z7140 should also be removed. These were experimental types created in August, 2023, but never used.

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Resolved	Jdforrester-WMF	T282925 Allow for users to specify external sources in function evaluation requests
Resolved	• Sharvaniharan	T282926 [25Q1] Allow for users to specify Wikidata items in function evaluation requests
Resolved	Jdforrester-WMF	T371450 Remove Wikidata-based types/functions that were created in Wikifunctions.org

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DMartin-WMF created this task.Jul 31 2024, 3:28 AM

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We may want predefined types for each Wikibase value types (not to be confused with data types), such as coordinates
If Wikidata access needs data to be returned as number, we need a predefined type for number
- Note Wikidata stores number as string, not as IEEE 754 floating point number
- Python allow representing such type of number via decimal object, but there are no native support in JavaScript.
Personally, I also want natural number and integer be predefined type, and the custom integer type be scrapped and mirgated. BTW we can just store (big) integer as simple string; storing it as a complex object (sign+natural number) seems an unorthodox solution.