Dear Wikidata community,
I am looking for a property to encode the skills (or expertise) that a person has, e.g. "C programming", "ancient history", "French", "Ballroom dancing". At best, it should be possible to add a qualifier for the skill level, e.g. "beginner", "advanced", "expert". I have been looking for such a property on the properties page (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties) but could not find one.
Maybe there is a more general solution - like using "significant person" qualified by "object has role" + "friend" to denote "hasFriend"?
Best wishes,
Cord
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Cord Wiljes
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Dear Wikidata list,
one of our big contributors, Bruno Belhoste in Paris, just gave me a weird question which I feel I cannot answer that fast.
We, FactGrid, are a Wikidata child and so it came that we adopted structures like the father/mother differentiation. Bruno's question is now whether it would not have been wise to just create just a "parent" option instead of the gender fork that splits the lineages. Let me insert his mail:
> Dear Olaf,
>
> I have a question of data modeling in FactGrid concerning family ties.
> We have one property for children (P150) and also one for siblings
> (P203), but two different properties for parents: father (P141) and
> mother (P142). The problem is: how can you get all the members of the
> family of somebody? One have (1) to explore both the matrilinear trees
> and the patrilinear trees at each generation to get all the ancestors
> and (2) to get all the descents of these ancestors. It is very complex.
> It would be much simpler to have only one property including the father
> and the mother.
>
> In case we choose this solution, it would be easy to transform all the
> triples with P141 or P142 into triples with the new property. What do
> you think about that? Have you another solution for querying family links?
>
> All the best,
>
> Bruno
I wonder what people with more data knowledge think about the proposal (which would affect just our site, not Wikidata...) (so: no worries, we can do experimental things without affecting our parent - I hesitate to speak of a father or mother - Wikidata).
Best,
Olaf
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