[Task] Add a new datatype for identifiers
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	Lydia_Pintscher
	Apr 10 2015, 1:12 PM

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Identifiers should get their own datatype. The value type would continue to be string.

NOTE: The new datatype can be defined without providing specialized formatters, parsers, or validators. It would fall back to basic handling for strings, just as before.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Define external-id datatype	mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase	master	+439 -15

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Status	Assigned	Task
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Resolved	None	T95287 [Epic] better handling of identifiers in the UI
Resolved	Bene	T95684 [Story] Format identifiers as Links
Open	None	T91505 [Epic] Adding new datatypes to Wikidata (tracking)
Open	None	T73992 [Story] JSON should (optionally) contain full URIs for referenced external entities
Resolved	Smalyshev	T99899 [Story] Looking up entities by external identifiers
Declined	Lydia_Pintscher	T85365 Wikidata identifiers are not linked on mobile
Resolved	Ladsgroup	T114617 Track the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props
Resolved	Lucie	T118694 [Story] Handling of identifier in the article placeholder
Resolved	daniel	T121274 Provide an RDF mapping for external identifiers
Resolved	hoo	T95682 [Task] Add a new datatype for identifiers
Resolved	Tobi_WMDE_SW	T88451 [Epic] Provide a mechanism for registering new data types.
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Lydia_Pintscher created this task.Apr 10 2015, 1:12 PM

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• Jonas renamed this task from add a new datatype for identifiers to [Story] Add a new datatype for identifiers.Aug 13 2015, 2:52 PM

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Tobi_WMDE_SW closed subtask T88451: [Epic] Provide a mechanism for registering new data types. as Resolved.Nov 2 2015, 2:52 PM

Multichill added a parent task: T114617: Track the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props.Nov 12 2015, 8:26 PM

Lucie mentioned this in T118694: [Story] Handling of identifier in the article placeholder.Nov 15 2015, 8:01 PM

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• Jonas merged a task: T112753: Create a mechanism for datatype specific Snak rendering (to allow formatting based on per-property information).Nov 23 2015, 3:09 PM

• Jonas added subtasks: T112756: [Task] Add property ID parameter to the wbformatvalue API, T112754: [Task] Use DataTypeDefinitions in OutputFormatSnakFormatterFactory .

• Jonas removed subtasks: T112754: [Task] Use DataTypeDefinitions in OutputFormatSnakFormatterFactory , T112756: [Task] Add property ID parameter to the wbformatvalue API.

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• Jonas renamed this task from [Story] Add a new datatype for identifiers to [Task] Add a new datatype for identifiers.Nov 23 2015, 3:16 PM

Lucie added a parent task: T118694: [Story] Handling of identifier in the article placeholder.Dec 4 2015, 2:58 PM

Change 258460 merged by jenkins-bot:
Define external-id datatype

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/258460

Note: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/258460 defines the new data type, but doesn't yet provide RDF mapping or extended JSON output for the new data type.