Is there another property that could be substituted
instead on Wikidata?
Unfortunately no.
the categories seemed so logical.
It IS logical to use an existing category for this purpose.
But the WD community has rejected my proposal
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archive/30#category (and the
previous one “useful for / interesting to”) because:
- categories are a bit messy, since many people use them for various purposes
- synchronizing cat-item assignments between WD and Wikipedias would be a major hassle.
They even rejected having such property that is NOT synced with Wikipedias, for project
purposes like
yours (Black Lunch Table) and mine (Europeana Food and Drink, European Holocaust Research
Infrastructure).
WD does have a bunch of over-specific categoreies, e.g. “people born/died/buried here”.
See
https://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/browse?activepage=1
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/browse?activepage=1&type=properties&lang=en&propertylabelfilter=category>
&type=properties&lang=en&propertylabelfilter=category
Does anyone think we should reopen this discussion?