Hoi,
I am giving notice that I will no longer maintain the people who are known
to have died on Wikidata. There are a few reasons:
- I do not have the same amount of time I used to have
- My time is better spend on other things. Linking people through
associations is more relevant
- I am sick and tired of the procrastination on bringing in information
from DBpedia
I have been indicating the need for importing data from DBpedia for a long
time and, there are always reasons why people think it is fine to wait even
longer until their pet project is ready. It implies that they assume that
everything will remain the same in the mean time. I refuse to accept that
attitude and that is why I will stop adding more dates of death as a
regular practice.
This does not mean that the data is not there, it does not mean that
Wikidata cannot have it. It means that we import from sources that are
known to be as trustworthy as Wikipedia. After all DBpedia data is based on
Wikipedia.
I will have more fun doing other things.
Thanks,
GerardM