the issue probably is related to the original
PHASE #3...
2014-06-03 23:50 GMT+02:00 Jan Kučera <kozuch82(a)gmail.com>om>:
Can tabular data be currently saved as a series of statements within
wikidata? If so, how can I create such a series?
Am I able to feed such a
series into a wikitable on some wiki?
2014-05-30 11:19 GMT+02:00 Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire(a)gmail.com>om>:
Simple tables that are in wikipedia:
> * league tables with columns for games won, drawn, lost, goals for,
> goals against, points, rank and rows for each of the teams in the league.
> * election results with columns for votes for each party and seats won
> by each party and rows for each region, state etc.
> * population numbers with columns for each tab (races, religion etc.)
> and rows for each census district.
>
> In all of these cases I suspect that this information might be more
> useful as a series of statements. These could either be broken up with a
> statement corresponding to each column on the item for each row or
> alternatively with all the information in the table on one item, a
> statement for each row and qualifiers to each statement corresponding to
> each column.
>
> What is the advantage to having this as a table instead?
>
> Joe
>
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well what I meant was just an ordinary 2-dimensional table (rows vs.
>> columns)... Excel was just an example to make it clear.
>>
>> So I guess simple tables are not any roadmap yet right?
>>
>> Further step would be an n-dimensional structures... arrays etc.
>>
>> I wouldnt care about format.... CSV, JSON...
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-05-27 14:24 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>
>> Please, leave your comments here too:
>>>
>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_…
>>>
>>> I've been gathering comments from several people, and in the next
>>> days I will try to summarize these suggestions to be discussed on irc.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Micru
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am not an expert of Wikidata but I work a lot in integration of
>>>> databases with several middlewares or tools.
>>>>
>>>> I think that the best way is to ask a solution to store and to
>>>> download data in a format compatible with datasheets like CSV.
>>>>
>>>> Excel is considered also a tool to do some basic analysis, but it
>>>> can be connected easily to a data source (if well structured).
>>>>
>>>> Excel itself is not a good approach to store data, so it's not a
>>>> good solution to keep the data in excel format in a database.
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't make sense to store a 2D tables in a database in my opinion
>>>> because the data have no sense and they are not helpful to anyone.
>>>>
>>>> They can be stored like a text file, but I would not imagine the
>>>> series of errors that can be generated importing these data again.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82(a)gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D
>>>>> tables like excel spreadsheets...
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan
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