I remember seeing a question from someone asking about
dates-of-battles a few months ago; I don't know if it was related to
this.
One issue that came up in the discussion is that a lot of battles
don't have a "date" - instead, they have a "start date" and
"end
date". (This is more of an issue in the last couple of centuries; not
many older battles lasted more than a day).
It looks like they've managed to cope with this - for example, their
system picked up
which has start
and end - but it's a good reminder that eg/ looking for "date" may not
always tell you quite what you expect on the first glance :-)
Andrew.
On 2 March 2016 at 21:53, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
"They found 12,703 battles which had an exact
location and date, 2,657 of them
are from Wikidata, the others are from DPpedia."
Maybe we can do better?
Am 02.03.2016 um 22:14 schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:14 PM Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
<mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hoi,
Yup I missed that one.. this [1] was my source :)
Gerard
[1]
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35685889
This is really great. I am thrilled about this because this isn't coverage about
Wikidata but coverage _with_ Wikidata on major news sites for the second time
this week
(
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/academy-awards-die-oscars-von-19…
being
the other one). They're using Wikidata data to do meaningful reporting. Our data
and the project as a whole got (at the very least) good enough for this. It
feels to me like we've broken through a wall.
High5 everyone! :D
Cheers
Lydia
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