Hi Thomas,
On 02.08.2015 13:48, Thomas Douillard wrote:
I also think classes do not have the importance thy deserve in Wikidata yet. Everything is centered around properties and the property creation right who entails the editorial process.
This might change in the future depnding on how Queries are implemented :) I'd love that we could use Queries items in «instance of» sand «subclass of» statements and that we could indeed verify that any instance of the subclass is also an instance of the superclass with the help of queries :)
Yes, I agree. The classes could still be more useful than they are now. A student at TU Dresden, Serge Stratan, is currently working on ways to improve browsing and inspection of the subclass of/instance of statements. There are some very curious things in there, but they are hard to spot without some "non-local" view. I hope that Serge will have a first public prototype within this month.
Best,
Markus