Re: How to increase character lenght of a String Property

Hi both,

Thank you very much for your support and references. It actually looks 
like it's possible to configure string limits but I'll post the question 
on the wikidata-tech list to make sure I don't make any mistakes.

Thanks again and all the best,

Claudio


Il 14/04/2021 23:25, Thomas Arrow ha scritto:
> Hi Claudio et al.,
>
> Karsten is right that in general you might be more likely to get your
> questions about Wikidata/Wikibase answered (or answered more quickly)
> on the wikidata-tech list.
>
> I think that you should be able to configure these limits but I'm
> unsure off the top of my head what the upper-bound might be. The
> documentation for the string length limits can be seen in the "string
> limits" section of the Wikibase Options documentation. [1]. I think
> you're interested in changing 'multilang'.
>
> Hopefully that helps.
>
> Cheers!
> Tom
>
> [1] https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/md_docs_topics_options.html#autotoc_md319
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 21:49, [[kgh]] <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Claudio,
>>
>> sometimes one can only do a guess. ;) I was wondering about the String
>> datatype though.
>>
>> Hmm, I ran into this issue on Wikidata too but did not investigate if it
>> was a configuration or a datatype issue though I very much suspect the
>> latter. In the end just did not add the info I had which was ....
>>
>> Anyhow, there is also a dedicated Wikibase mailing list which should get
>> your question to the right spot: [2].
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
>> (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata)
>>
>> Karsten / MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki enthusiast / → https://professional.wiki/
>>
>> Am 14.04.21 um 22:32 schrieb Claudio Prandoni:
>>> Thank you very much for your answer Karsten
>>>
>>> Actually, what we are using is the Wikibase extension of MediaWiki.
>>> The link to the website is https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/ and the
>>> Properties I mentioned are used to store the translations of the text
>>> of the epigraphs, see eg.
>>> https://wiki.eagle-network.eu/wiki/Item:Q9529. These fields appear to
>>> have a length limit of 400 characters (the type is String).
>>>
>>> Do you have any suggestions on how I can check if this can be changed?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much!
>>>
>>>
>>> Il 14/04/2021 20:30, [[kgh]] ha scritto:
>>>> I assume you are asking about Semantic MediaWiki. Works for me by
>>>> default: [0].
>>>>
>>>> There is a mailing list for Semantic MediaWiki. See here: [1]
>>>>
>>>> [0] https://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/20210414
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_mailing_lists
>>>>
>>>> Karsten / MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki enthusiast / →
>>>> https://professional.wiki/
>>>>
>>>> Am 14.04.21 um 19:03 schrieb Claudio Prandoni:
>>>>> Dear MediaWiki users,
>>>>>
>>>>> Nice to meet you. I have a simple question... In my MediaWiki instance
>>>>> I have a set of Properties whose data type is String. As far as I have
>>>>> seen, it is not possible to add text longer than 400 characters for
>>>>> this property. Is there any way to increase that limit?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much!
>>>>>
>>>>> Claudio
>>>>>
>>>>>
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