The opposite is true, it is a must that this data is added to these items.
For a sports season it is basic information to have the sport in question
being added, as otherwise these items are practically useless. The opposite
is their purpose: to be useful. One of the first things users of the data
want to do is to be able to select the sport in question data is wanted
from. Commonly not all sports at once but one single sport, let's say
football, tennis, baseball, ...
On top of this would adding the sport also help to make these items even
extra useful: most of these items have only one or two statements on them.
By being able to select the sport, the users who work with this data can
better focus on the items for that particular sport those users are
focussed on.
Two months ago I published an analysis in what became clear that the
stability, quality, and inter-item structured data is far from the
structured level as what in general would have wished for and would have
expected. Wikidata contains structured data, but only on the level of a
single item. In practise, structured data goes beyond just the single item
and is needed on all levels of data. Sadly it is missing on the various
levels, which makes it for individual items not a good to just say that we
need to rely on the data on other items. In closed data systems there is a
structural coordination in place, which takes care of structural adding of
data on all levels. There it is possible to rely on relationships. Wikidata
with its open nature misses the structural coordination, and misses the
structured data beyond the single item. And as those (missing) levels
define the relationships, it is not something to reply on.
To continue, on Wikipedia (and other platforms) the communities have set
some standards to make sure that the content has/gets the minimal quality.
For a large parts the quality of the Wikidata just sucks, often it is
almost completely missing, incomplete, inconsistent or even false. With
luck, a dedicated contributor has taken great care of a relative small
group of items, but large parts are a big mess. I remember from 15-20 years
ago on Wikipedia people saying not wanting to have basic standards, like
for example as that was considered redundant, not needed, etc. By now most
contributors have hopefully learned how wrong that idea was. I am sorry to
say, but that is what I see happen here too.
We need to get to basic standards for sport seasons items. Besides
indicating that it is a sports season (P31), other basic properties that
should always be present are country, sport, point in time, sport season
of, follows, followed by.
With today's challenge, the focus is first the sports. On this users can
build further to get that all sport seasons have at least the basic
properties added.
Romaine
Op vr 23 dec. 2022 om 21:16 schreef Thad Guidry <thadguidry(a)gmail.com>om>:
Please do not do this,
What you are likely wanting to accomplish is relating a sports season to a
category of sports and this is already done. So the relationships are
inferred.
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 11:01 PM Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
Too many items on Wikidata still miss the basic statements. Perhaps we
can focus together for a short period of time on a single subject to get
this fixed.
For example: all items with instance of (P31) sports season should also
have have sport (P641) as statement.
When I just ran a query I saw 24000 sports season items that are still
missing sport (P641).
Query:
https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0…
I already did a few myself but for the largest part help is needed. Who
has ideas and can help getting this statement added to all the sports
season items.
Thanks!
Romaine
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