https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes right now has URL as an available datatype but https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewProperty does not. They should show the same list.
Version: master
Severity: normal
Whiteboard: u=dev c=backend p=0
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T96040 Wikibase special pages (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | Addshore | T55265 Special:ListDatatypes and Special:NewProperty are not consistent |
URL now appears in both. Close this bug, or are there two underlying lists that still need to be merged?
Thanks for checking :)
The issue is that one of them shows what is actually configure on the wiki and the other one shows what is available in the code. This can lead to the case where a datatype is available but not enabled. It'd be shown in ListDatatypes but not NewProperty for no apparent reason. That's confusing. As far as I know that issue is still there.
Special:ListDatatypes is maintained using i18n messages of all possible types
the list on Special:NewProperty is created using the currently enabled types.
I don't really think this is an issue.
It is an issue because it is confusing people when a datatype is "available" but not configured for a wiki so they can't use it.
So I looked into this a bit more and the page should actually only show things registered in $wgWBRepoDataTypes
Which only contains datatypes that are enabled on the repo.
Special:NewPropertty gets its list from the same place
This was either fixed since this was filed, or it was not a real issue before and it may have had something to do with experimental datatypes etc.