User talk:Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)

 Dear, Welcome to MediaWiki.org !

Yes, welcome! This site is dedicated to documenting the MediaWiki software, the software behind many wikis, including that of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Please, take a look at the following pages. They might prove useful to you as a newcomer here:
 * Landing instructions
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If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and find this site useful documentation of the MediaWiki software. Thanks, and regards, John Vandenberg (talk) 11:12, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Data model edit
In a recent series of edits you added to Wikibase/DataModel this sentence:

"The data model is conceptual ('Which information do we have to support?') and does not specify how this data should be represented technically ('Which data structures should the software use?') or syntactically ('How should the data be expressed in a file?')."

But a person or group who wishes to extract data from the database must know what format the data will be in if it is to be used, especially if large quantities of data are being extracted. What document can the users refer to so they will know what the data format is? Jc3s5h (talk) 14:34, 28 February 2015 (UTC)