Thanks Lydia,

agreed, the tool absolutely is useful and many thanks to you, Lucie and your team, for providing it!!!!

However, it is difficult for me to say what needs to be resolved on the tools level and what on Wikidata content. What I observe looks to me (but I may be wrong) a mashup-error occurring when uncritically combining data from different sources, each source being internally consistent and correct. This may be something that needs to be addressed by the tool.

The problem with different labels and singular/plural may or may not be a tool problem in choosing the correct label

One problem I have when using the tool to try to understand what is going on: It should variously wikidata and wikipedia pages, making it somewhat difficult to follow what goes on. E.g. Biota is a wikidata page, bacteria is a wikipedia page...

So again thanks for doing this great work!

gregor




On 18 December 2014 at 20:52, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Gregor Hagedorn <g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/tree-of-life/
>
> is problematic at first looks.
>
> Bacteria, prokaryotes, monera and eukaryoates as sister groups on the same
> level?
> Prokaryotes contain as only subtaxon Archaea (but no bacteria)?
>
> Also, the mixed use of scientific and common names (variously as singular or
> plural) is rather confusing.
>
> sorry for the critique...

Hey Gregor,

That's exactly why Lucie made the tool ;-) It is only a reflection of
the data in Wikidata. So if it is wrong in the tree it is wrong in
Wikidata and should be fixed.


Cheers
Lydia

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