Last modified: 2014-01-23 13:20:26 UTC
The serialization of PropertyValueSnaks may contain a datatype field indicating the snak's data type. This is more useful than the often ambiguous or misleading value type. The output of Special:EntityData should thus contain the datatype field (at least when using a non-RDF output format).
Change 101855 had a related patch set uploaded by Daniel Kinzler: Use ResultBuilder for EntityData. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/101855
Change 101855 merged by jenkins-bot: (bug 57231) Use ResultBuilder for EntityData. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/101855