Help talk:Data type

Monolingual string

Monolingual string is supposed to be used for chemical formulas according to the current version ??? Isn't this a chemistry language ? I also don't get the "is not translated" part. author  TomT0m / talk page 21:14, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Translation of type names

Where can it be changed? For the "quantity" type, the section name is translated correctly into Russian, but the text in parentheses means ordinal number (номер), not cardinal (число). --AVRS (talk) 08:41, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

lowerBound

The part about lowerBound and upperBound is outdated! -- Innocent bystander (talk) 18:30, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

 Done Matěj Suchánek (talk) 19:34, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Entering quantity with unsymmetrical upper and lower bound

Using the user interface, how can I enter a quantity with upper and lower bounds. For example, if I want to enter the number of seconds in a common year, allowing for as many as 2 positive leap seconds, but no leap seconds, how could I enter 31,536,000 -0 +2 in the user interface?  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jc3s5h (talk • contribs) at 30. 4. 2018, 17:22‎ (UTC).

I would like to know the answer to this question, too. At the moment it is not clear how can it be done. - Sarilho1 (talk) 16:44, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm also interested in this. I don't know how to enter a quantity with different upper and lower uncertainty intervals. I can add that I tried doing this using the API and the user interface shows the larger interval. For example, for {"amount": "+8","unit": "1","upperBound": "+12","lowerBound": "+2"} it shows "8±6", whereas for {"amount": "+8","unit": "1","upperBound": "+12","lowerBound": "+8"} it shows "8±4". --Diegodlh (talk) 00:25, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

This topic might be better brought to WD:DEV. Especially the part where incorrect deviation in one direction is shown deserves attention. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:55, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Datatype links in brackets basically go to same point

The link below each datatype, e.g. Commons media file in "type: commonsMedia (Commons media file)" simply links to the header in the line directly above. This is either unnecessary or (what I presume) broken and should point somewhere else. Can anyone confirm or deny that? Adrian Bielefeldt (talk) 16:28, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

data type × datatype

Both forms can still be seen on the page. Which one should be preferred? Matěj Suchánek (talk) 08:54, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Sub-sections' order

I don't see the sort rational in these section, it is not alphabetic, and doesn't seems to be by frequency either. Yug (talk) 11:57, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

I agree, I have changed the order to be more logical in special:diff/1776937981. --Push-f (talk) 07:18, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Renaming the page to Help:Data types

Help:Items, Help:Statements, Help:Qualifiers, Help:Properties and Help:Sources are all plural, I don't see any reason why the title of this page should be singular.

See also a related discussion: Help talk:Property constraints portal#Renaming the page to Help:Property constraints.

--Push-f (talk) 15:52, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

"Changing datatype" doesn't quite fit on the page

It has policy character while the rest of the page is strictly informational. --Push-f (talk) 15:05, 13 December 2022 (UTC)