Hi Gerard,
On 13/06/14 11:08, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, When you leave out qualifiers, you will find that Ronald Reagan was never president of the United States and only an actor. Yes, omitting the statements with qualifiers is wrong but as a consequence the total of the information is wrong as well.
I do not see the point of this functionality. It is wrong any way I look at it. Without qualifiers information is wrong. Without statements information is wrong and without the items involved the information is incomplete and wrong.
As I see it you cannot win. Including this type of RDF export produces something that I fail to see serves any purpose or it is the purpose that you can.
Surely, Wikidata will never be complete. There will always be some statements missing. If we would follow your reasoning, the data would therefore never be of any use. I think this is a bit drastic.
Anyway, why argue? If you don't like the simplified exports, just use the full ones. We clearly say that "simplified" is not "faithful", and we have a detailed documentation about what is in each of the files. So it does not seem likely that people will be confused.
Best regards,
Markus