2016-03-05 16:09 GMT+01:00 Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>nl>:
Hi Luca,
Op 5-3-2016 om 14:30 schreef Luca Martinelli:
Probably the threshold we set up for the conversion is too high, and
this might be one of the causes why the whole process has slowed down
to a dying pace.
You call
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Maintenance_script a
dying pace?
Instead of complaining here people should participate in
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/Identifiers/0 . Still plenty of
easy properties that are clearly distinct, unique and have an external url.
It doesn't make sense to discus the more complicated cases if we haven't
gotten the easy cases out of the way yet.
Point taken, I apologise for using too dramatic tones.
Nonetheless, I stick to the point that probably a ">99% unique
identifier" threshold is too high. Just to make another example
(disclaimer: I asked for this property since it is yet another
catalogue that my institution runs), P1949 has not been converted to
identifier because it has "only 98.82% unique out of 507 uses", that
translates in only *six* cases out of 505 items which have two P1949
identifiers.
More, I did not intervene because of my blatant conflict of interest
AND because I do not know with who discuss this and where, not even
the general "what is an identifier" discussion. Probably there is a
place where this discussion is going on, and I apologise again for not
knowing (though I have some pretty good excuses), and I'm serious when
I say that I'd be thankful to you if you please can point me in the
general direction of where this is happening. :)
(
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/Identifiers maybe? Though
that discussion seems to be pretty blocked)
L.