Sure, there are lots of types of suggestions one can imagine. We could draw attention to
potential mistakes, suggest common qualifiers for specific properties, etc. I have
narrowed my confusion about the current proposal for implementing qualifiers. I do think
making qualifiers be a list of properties is the correct way to go. So for our common
example of historic population numbers we will use a property like "publication
date" of a work? Because the report is a work that has a publication date, and that
date is the qualifier for the population property of the city item. However, I do think
the data model primer currently gives an example of a qualifier that should just be data
included in properties on an item. It refers to the election date and party of Angela
Merkel as qualifiers, but that information is actual knowledge with references in the
encyclopedia, so it should be included as properties of the Angela Merkel item, not as
qualifiers for a value of the head of state property of the Germany item. Then things like
including "as of" or "since" for population dates will be handled by
the inclusion syntax in the articles, correct?
From: andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:34:05 +0000
To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Expiration date for data
On 21 March 2013 15:39, Michael Hale <hale.michael.jr(a)live.com> wrote:
Great post. Regarding the suggestions feature, it
seems the easiest way to
get that rolling would be to have a bot that would periodically tally all of
the properties for all of the items that have an "is a" property with the
same value. Then we could say most of the items with "is a _" have a _. Then
anytime you set an "is a" property you could automatically get suggestions
for what properties to add. Guided growth without suffocation from
constraints.
And conversely, advice on unusual combinations: "Only 1 of the 54,687
items with "population" values also have a value for "flavour". Did
you mean to include this?"
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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