Without discussing each point, let me just pick out one example:
astronomic objects,The same: one article about the moons of Uranus vs. one for each.
Wikidata can (and probably will) store information about each moon of Uranus, e.g., its mass. It does probably not make sense to store the mass of "Moons of Uranus" if there is such an article. It does not help to know that the article "Moons on Uranus" also talks (among other things) about some moon that has a particular mass: you need to know what *exactly* you are talking about to exploit this data. An article on "Moons of Uranus" could still (eventually) embed Wikidata data to improve its display, but this data must refer to individual moons, not to the article as a whole.
There is no question that there are many difficult modelling cases (one article or many? how many? etc.), but these cases will not go away in any of the alternative proposals that have been made in this thread.
Markus
On 03/04/12 07:37, Bináris wrote:
2012/4/2 Markus Krötzsch <markus.kroetzsch@cs.ox.ac.uk mailto:markus.kroetzsch@cs.ox.ac.uk>
We should take care not to overrate this topic. There are hundreds of thousands of articles that have a unique, exact match between different language versions.Fortunately. But problems and surprises in informatics are always in the minority of cases. :-)
Cities,Settlements are drawn together and dissected all the time. Rome may be one city for one Wikipedia, separate ancient Rome and modern Rome for the other. The newest problem in huwiki is a small part of Budapest that has two articles, one for it as part of the modern city, and one for the historical standalone settlement (same place, same name). Some wikis sraw articles together for notability reasons, others dissect because of extent.
countries,These are really interesting! Can you tell what Germany is in the terms of history? Or just Prussia? Prussia is a country that's name leads to a disambiguation page in many wikis, and no warranty the standalone articles will match. Or what about Yugoslavia as a country? One wiki may think to write one article about countries by this name, while another will handle it in several articles.
works of art,One wiki writes one article about Leonardo's paintings, the other one for each. This may be handled by linking to section titles, perhaps? While entities have a clear meaning, articles about them may not exactly match.
astronomic objects,The same: one article about the moons of Uranus vs. one for each.
Etc.
-- Bináris
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