Hi,
"Denny Vrandečić" <denny.vrandecic(a)wikimedia.de> schrieb:
* Wikidata has to balance ease of use and
expressiveness of statements.
The
user interface should not get complicated to merely cover a few
exceptional
edge cases.
So your test UI, had it been a proposal or just anything to have to type in? As a user
I'd like to enter values as a whole with its unit and tolerance, absolute as well as
relative and in range notation. So everything with just one <input
type="text" />. With this it is easier to C+P values from sources.
After the discussion, I decided to drop altitude /
elevation from the
Geolocation.
I cannot understand this decision, but yes, it can be expressed outside.
I sense consensus that we should allow declaration of
units in the
wiki,
and not to have it hardcoded in the software. Having discussed the
various
options and in light of the discussion here, the current suggestion
would
be to create a page for every quantity unit including the appropriate
factors (for linear translations). This is similar to the way Freebase
does
it, as sent around by Tom, and what John McClure suggested.
Why not using Javascript, Lua or anything else? So one could also provide
non-linear transcalculation like decibel for example.
Nikola, we will not have special handling for money for
now. This would
require a whole different spec I am afraid. Currency happen 200,000
times
in Wikipedia -- it is often, but not so often to be high priority.
Here the only thing that could help, would be a bot updating the exchange rates.
BTW, this is also kind of statistic data. So one could query those on WM as well. But
sometimes transcalculations are only wanted once, so such values would also require a
timestamp.
Cheers
Marco