Hoi,
The good news is that the interwiki tangles are a big improvement over what
we had. Now there is clarity when an interwiki is wrong. There is one place
where to solve it and when solved, it is solved for all linked Wikipedias.
The problem I have with all the ontology issues is that they are relevant
in the context of interconnectivity between systems. This becomes
increasingly irrelevant as we identify the records in other systems.
Irrelevant it is also because we do not use it. Getting data from external
sources is largely frowned upon.
As it is, we are building the data in Wikidata ourselves and comparing
things is an afterthought. Many statements in Wikidata are problematic but
they have the saving grace that with more statements it becomes more clear
what works and what does not. As long as people talk in terms of ontologies
and do not translate it into "Reasonator" like application it is in my
opinion a waste of breath.
Thanks,
GerardM
Hi TomTOm,
Be careful what you wish for! If this were possible, then if someone
changed the dates, this could mess up other things. We already have a big
job untangling mismatched interwiki links, and this would make such
mismatches possible to the nth degree.
Jane
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On Nov 4, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hey, I got an ontology question.
Classes are, in semantic web framework and their foundations like
Description
Logic, if I'am not wrong, something like a lohic predicate that
intensionaly or extentionaly defines the properties of their instances.
They are usually not qualified, but in Wikidata, as of now they are
properties
like the others, who can also be qualified.
So the question is : could we use qualifier on classes to add predicates
on the
class definition ? For example if
<George Bush> is an instance of <United
States President> [<from> 1980
<to> 1984] (random years), this would
mean that the instanciation add some
predicates on the other predicates we have on the <president of the united
states> ?
Just a random thought, I just realise I just qualified the
instanciation, not the
class itself.
--TomT0m
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