Good luck with your edit-a-thon today [1] and it would
be awesome if you could
introduce Reasonator and Wikidata while discussing Wikipedia. I think it is
very interesting that you just discovered Magnus through Reasonator instead of
the other way around - discovering more of Magnus through his Wikipedia tools.
So few people venture outside of the text-oriented Wikipedia projects, it's
always refreshing to see someone in a public-facing capacity getting involved
in Wikidata.
Thank you! The Edit-a-thon went well. I'll be putting a write-up of it on
English Wikipedia and Outreach pretty soon.
I really don't know many of the people who make the non-core tools. I pay
attention to the talks that happen on Wikitech-l, but for some reason Magnus
doesn't really stand out in my head at all if he participates there. I'm glad
now that I know who that he though.
I hope to help in any way that I can.
@Magus, I've submitted a pull request that fixes that problem I was complaining
about. Its not an ideal fix, but its good enough to satisfy me.
Hi Derrick, I think it's vain to ask yourself if
some concept "deserves" an
item. It does not make much sense. There is much more value in the regularity
in how we express the same kind of data : this makes really much simpler to
develop tools and to help newbies on how to do things if we decide one way on
expressing that somebody is the mayor of somewhere and stick to it.
When I said deserves, I meant it in a notability sense. Most mayor positions
are not in themselves notable, so it to me doesn't make sense to have a
Mayor of Frederick item if using the "of" qualifier on the "position
held"
property will suffice. Though that does leave a bit of irregularity because
of items like "Mayor of New York City" which as a position is clearly notable.
If we have the "of" qualifier, but don't use it and instead make many
"Mayor of XYZ" items, we might as well remove the qualifier.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott