[13:43:04] bennofs[m]: thats a legacy thing [13:43:23] I think now they are all created with either upper or lower case (i dont remember which) [13:44:19] upper case, I believe [13:44:37] the case of the letters in the GUID part has also varied, don’t remember what we currently use there [14:01:21] Technical Advice IRC meeting starting in 60 minutes in channel #wikimedia-tech, hosts: @bd808 - all questions welcome, more infos: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting [14:50:59] Technical Advice IRC meeting starting in 10 minutes in channel #wikimedia-tech, hosts: @bd808 - all questions welcome, more infos: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting [15:48:15] hi [17:09:22] ok, another thing I don't understand: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45 says inception (P571): 5 October 1143, but SPARQL gives me the 12th? https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fs%20%3Fv%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%20%28wd%3AQ45%20as%20%3Fs%29%20%0A%20%20wd%3AQ45%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fv%20.%0A%20%20%7D [17:09:45] is this some fancy calendar conversion or what's happening here? [17:32:33] yes, it’s converted to the proleptic Gregorian calendar [17:32:35] see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Format#Time [19:54:40] ah, thanks.