Wikidata feels empty... even data on people is almost non-existing.
The Italian Wikipedia has the most complete persondata dataset in Wikimedia world, ready for import. Legoktm's bot was almost ready to parse the {{bio}} template, some code tweaking will be needed. No takers, really? This is very low hanging fruit for bots.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#Persons_and_it.wikipedia https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:BioBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Legobot/properties.js#Italian_person_data
Nemo
Hi,
Am 25.04.2014, 18:31 Uhr, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
Wikidata feels empty... even data on people is almost non-existing.
The Italian Wikipedia has the most complete persondata dataset in Wikimedia world, ready for import. Legoktm's bot was almost ready to parse the {{bio}} template, some code tweaking will be needed. No takers, really? This is very low hanging fruit for bots.
the german wikipedia has persondata for over 525.000 persons, the raw data could be found as csv at http://tools.wmflabs.org/persondata/data/pd_dump.txt
The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many persons is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between 1918 and 1921"). But of course for a lot of persons there are accurate information, which could be imported to Wikidata.
Greets, Christian / APPER
Christian Thiele, 27/04/2014 11:16:
the german wikipedia has persondata for over 525.000 persons, the raw data could be found as csv at http://tools.wmflabs.org/persondata/data/pd_dump.txt
Sure, that's a useful source as well. Not as complete for each of the items, though.
The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many persons is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between 1918 and 1921").
Hm. No such problem exists with it.wiki's {{bio}}, which is very restrictive in what you can enter in it.
Nemo
@Nemo, Apper: Do you think you could import that data into the wd-repo AND make use of it via an inclusion template? In the past there was some animosity against importing data without their sources, but if it is data that is being used and displayed on Wikipedia, then I guess it would be regarded differently. Anyhow, these kinds of discussions are better on-wiki.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Christian Thiele apper@apper.de wrote:
The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many persons is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between 1918 and 1921"). But of course for a lot of persons there are accurate information, which could be imported to Wikidata.
For this kinds of situation you have the "before" and "after" of the time datatype: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes
The problem is that it is not visible yet... https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61909
Cheers, Micru
there are some problems in using bio template for example they used it for a group of people
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fratelli_Wright
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:51 PM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
@Nemo, Apper: Do you think you could import that data into the wd-repo AND make use of it via an inclusion template? In the past there was some animosity against importing data without their sources, but if it is data that is being used and displayed on Wikipedia, then I guess it would be regarded differently. Anyhow, these kinds of discussions are better on-wiki.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Christian Thiele apper@apper.de wrote:
The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many persons is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between 1918 and 1921"). But of course for a lot of persons there are accurate information, which could be imported to Wikidata.
For this kinds of situation you have the "before" and "after" of the time datatype: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes
The problem is that it is not visible yet... https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61909
Cheers, Micru
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Maybe it is possible to identify those cases and not use wd data for them? They must represent a very tiny percentage of the total...
Cheers, Micru
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.comwrote:
there are some problems in using bio template for example they used it for a group of people
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fratelli_Wright
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:51 PM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
@Nemo, Apper: Do you think you could import that data into the wd-repo AND make use of it via an inclusion template? In the past there was some animosity against importing data without their sources, but if it is data that is being used and displayed on Wikipedia, then I guess it would be regarded differently. Anyhow, these kinds of discussions are better on-wiki.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Christian Thiele apper@apper.dewrote:
The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many persons is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between 1918 and 1921"). But of course for a lot of persons there are accurate information, which could be imported to Wikidata.
For this kinds of situation you have the "before" and "after" of the time datatype: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes
The problem is that it is not visible yet... https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61909
Cheers, Micru
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It's easy I skip pages with more than one bio templates I'm working on harvesting information right now and I'll start very soon Best
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:03 PM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe it is possible to identify those cases and not use wd data for them? They must represent a very tiny percentage of the total...
Cheers, Micru
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.comwrote:
there are some problems in using bio template for example they used it for a group of people
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fratelli_Wright
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:51 PM, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
@Nemo, Apper: Do you think you could import that data into the wd-repo AND make use of it via an inclusion template? In the past there was some animosity against importing data without their sources, but if it is data that is being used and displayed on Wikipedia, then I guess it would be regarded differently. Anyhow, these kinds of discussions are better on-wiki.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Christian Thiele apper@apper.dewrote:
The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many persons is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between 1918 and 1921"). But of course for a lot of persons there are accurate information, which could be imported to Wikidata.
For this kinds of situation you have the "before" and "after" of the time datatype: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes
The problem is that it is not visible yet... https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61909
Cheers, Micru
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
there are some problems in using bio template for example they used it for a group of people
This is quite a difficult problem. Also look for infoboxes not at the top of a page, because the Wikipedia page contains two concepts. Here is an example with {{Bio}}:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
In the journals area, I faced this many times with the article about a society not having an infobox for the society, but including an infobox in a section for their primary journal .
My bot has some very hacky code to detect the infobox type in a few languages
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:JVbot/periodicalbot.py (the first function)
It would be good if we can create an algorithm that detects all these anomalies, or a special hidden parameter added to the invocation, to exclude those templates from automated parsing, but also lists all pages like this so that those pages can be split on the Wikipedias (unless notability rules prevent the split).
-- John Vandenberg
Hoi, When Wikipedia has an approach to specific articles that are not compatible with Wikidata, we can create items that fit our need and keep the original item for what it is .. for instance a list of people (in the case of the Wright brothers).
The notion that Wikidata defers to Wikipedia is not one can keep because there are bound to be Wikipedias who differ in their approach and have an article for both Wilbur and Orville Wright..
Yes, it is good to have a hope for algorithms in the future, in the mean time consider what percentage is wrong and that quite often not having data is more damaging than having data that can be manipulated with queries, tools. No data is no grip at all. We do have queries in WDQ/Autolist and we have tools in ToolScript and pywikipedia.
IMHO the most important thing we should do to get better quality is report on differences. This helps all projects involved in an import / export / comparison. Thanks, Gerard
On 29 April 2014 09:15, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
there are some problems in using bio template for example they used it
for a
group of people
This is quite a difficult problem. Also look for infoboxes not at the top of a page, because the Wikipedia page contains two concepts. Here is an example with {{Bio}}:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
In the journals area, I faced this many times with the article about a society not having an infobox for the society, but including an infobox in a section for their primary journal .
My bot has some very hacky code to detect the infobox type in a few languages
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:JVbot/periodicalbot.py (the first function)
It would be good if we can create an algorithm that detects all these anomalies, or a special hidden parameter added to the invocation, to exclude those templates from automated parsing, but also lists all pages like this so that those pages can be split on the Wikipedias (unless notability rules prevent the split).
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Il 29/apr/2014 09:31 "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com ha scritto:
Hoi, When Wikipedia has an approach to specific articles that are not
compatible with Wikidata, we can create items that fit our need and keep the original item for what it is .. for instance a list of people (in the case of the Wright brothers).
The notion that Wikidata defers to Wikipedia is not one can keep because
there are bound to be Wikipedias who differ in their approach and have an article for both Wilbur and Orville Wright..
Exactly, I kinda had the same "problem" with Sacco and Vanzetti when I was uploading Italian authority codes. They have two different codes in the Italian national library system, but have a "joint article" on Wikipedia.
L.
David Cuenca, 27/04/2014 12:21:
@Nemo, Apper: Do you think you could import that data into the wd-repo AND make use of it via an inclusion template?
The Italian Wikipedia has a track of early adoption of Wikidata as a source. Almost everything that was added to Wikidata was immediately put into use (most recent big example, I think, the {{interprogetto}}). It wouldn't take long before {{bio}} starts using the data once it's available (probably days or weeks), it's been discussed several times and nobody appeared to dislike the idea.
Nemo
Il 27/apr/2014 12:59 "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com ha scritto:
David Cuenca, 27/04/2014 12:21:
@Nemo, Apper: Do you think you could import that data into the wd-repo AND make use of it via an inclusion template?
The Italian Wikipedia has a track of early adoption of Wikidata as a
source. Almost everything that was added to Wikidata was immediately put into use (most recent big example, I think, the {{interprogetto}}). It wouldn't take long before {{bio}} starts using the data once it's available (probably days or weeks), it's been discussed several times and nobody appeared to dislike the idea.
If I'm not mistaken, there are (or were) already some experiments going on with {{Bio}} using data from Wikidata, possibly for the image field.
Anyway, if Amir (thanks!) is really going to upload that data, nobody is preventing us from trying to make an experiment on large scale. I'll talk with the Italian community about it.
L.
I started my bothttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dexboton: P31 (instance of), P21 (gender), P19 (place of birth), and P20 (place of death)
I also wrote the code to import dates of birth and death but I'm not running it yet because there is one important question: What is the colander model you use as date of birth and death? in some places Gregorian wasn't common until 1912 so I can't add these dates before 1912 because the bot can't be sure about calender model of these dates
Best
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.comwrote:
Il 27/apr/2014 12:59 "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com ha scritto:
David Cuenca, 27/04/2014 12:21:
@Nemo, Apper: Do you think you could import that data into the wd-repo AND make use of it via an inclusion template?
The Italian Wikipedia has a track of early adoption of Wikidata as a
source. Almost everything that was added to Wikidata was immediately put into use (most recent big example, I think, the {{interprogetto}}). It wouldn't take long before {{bio}} starts using the data once it's available (probably days or weeks), it's been discussed several times and nobody appeared to dislike the idea.
If I'm not mistaken, there are (or were) already some experiments going on with {{Bio}} using data from Wikidata, possibly for the image field.
Anyway, if Amir (thanks!) is really going to upload that data, nobody is preventing us from trying to make an experiment on large scale. I'll talk with the Italian community about it.
L.
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I was stumped by the same question and couldn't find an answer anywhere either - as I recall, I just picked the default option, whichever it was
2014-04-27 14:04 GMT+02:00, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com:
I started my bothttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dexboton: P31 (instance of), P21 (gender), P19 (place of birth), and P20 (place of death)
I also wrote the code to import dates of birth and death but I'm not running it yet because there is one important question: What is the colander model you use as date of birth and death? in some places Gregorian wasn't common until 1912 so I can't add these dates before 1912 because the bot can't be sure about calender model of these dates
Best
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.comwrote:
Il 27/apr/2014 12:59 "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com ha scritto:
David Cuenca, 27/04/2014 12:21:
@Nemo, Apper: Do you think you could import that data into the wd-repo AND make use of it via an inclusion template?
The Italian Wikipedia has a track of early adoption of Wikidata as a
source. Almost everything that was added to Wikidata was immediately put into use (most recent big example, I think, the {{interprogetto}}). It wouldn't take long before {{bio}} starts using the data once it's available (probably days or weeks), it's been discussed several times and nobody appeared to dislike the idea.
If I'm not mistaken, there are (or were) already some experiments going on with {{Bio}} using data from Wikidata, possibly for the image field.
Anyway, if Amir (thanks!) is really going to upload that data, nobody is preventing us from trying to make an experiment on large scale. I'll talk with the Italian community about it.
L.
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Amir Ladsgroup, 27/04/2014 14:04:
I also wrote the code to import dates of birth and death but I'm not running it yet because there is one important question: What is the colander model you use as date of birth and death?
Consensus has mostly been to force gregorian calendar everywhere. I'll add more details on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests/Italian_Wikipedia_person_data in a moment; please ask specific questions there so that we can edit the data mapping gradually. :)
Nemo
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.comwrote:
If I'm not mistaken, there are (or were) already some experiments going on with {{Bio}} using data from Wikidata, possibly for the image field.
That is definitely a big advantadge. It would be great to have a first test run (of say, 1000 items) and see what are the potential problems of a simultaneous import+use of the data. One of the things I would like to see in Wikidata is the replacement of "imported from:Wikipedia X" by another property (or function), that would show "data shown on:Wikipedia X".
Cheers, Micru
David Cuenca, 27/04/2014 15:38:
One of the things I would like to see in Wikidata is the replacement of "imported from:Wikipedia X" by another property (or function), that would show "data shown on:Wikipedia X".
That's like a crosswiki WhatLinksHere or a globalusage for data. I don't find a bug for it, please file.
Nemo
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
That's like a crosswiki WhatLinksHere or a globalusage for data. I don't find a bug for it, please file.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64509
Cheers, Micru
2014-04-27 15:38 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.com wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, there are (or were) already some experiments going on with {{Bio}} using data from Wikidata, possibly for the image field.
That is definitely a big advantadge. It would be great to have a first test run (of say, 1000 items) and see what are the potential problems of a simultaneous import+use of the data.
I recalled the fact quite correctly: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo:Bio takes dates of birth and death from Wikidata. I think we can talk to extend the possibility to gender, and later to other fields.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.comwrote:
I recalled the fact quite correctly: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo:Bio takes dates of birth and death from Wikidata. I think we can talk to extend the possibility to gender, and later to other fields.
That's perfect, because that means that the bot can just delete the text on import. What is missing are the fields brth/death date "after" and "before" for uncertain dates (DataNascitaDopo/DataNascitaPrima?). I'm curious to see that working :)
Cheers, Micru
2014-04-28 17:08 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.com wrote:
I recalled the fact quite correctly: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo:Bio takes dates of birth and death from Wikidata. I think we can talk to extend the possibility to gender, and later to other fields.
That's perfect, because that means that the bot can just delete the text on import.
I would say -1 for the moment. We first need to talk about it and create hidden categories in order to control the retrievals. There's time to delete. :)
Am 27.04.2014 11:16, schrieb Christian Thiele:
The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many persons is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between 1918 and 1921"). But of course for a lot of persons there are accurate information, which could be imported to Wikidata.
Parsing these would be a bit messy, but *having* uncertain info like this is not a problem for Wikidata. We actually *want* this kind of "depth" in the data, that's exactly why our data model is as complicated as it is.
-- daniel
On 4/28/14, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 27.04.2014 11:16, schrieb Christian Thiele:
The german dates have to be parsed, and I think the uncertainty for many persons is the main problem ("born 5th of July 1716 or 15th of July 1718", "between 1918 and 1921"). But of course for a lot of persons there are accurate information, which could be imported to Wikidata.
Parsing these would be a bit messy, but *having* uncertain info like this is not a problem for Wikidata. We actually *want* this kind of "depth" in the data, that's exactly why our data model is as complicated as it is.
-- daniel
It's not a big deal, parsing it would be no problem, I can use it in parsing data from Bio template in Italian Wikipedia but I have to use "precision" argument in snak. Am I right? what value have to set for precision if I have just year (and no month and day)?
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Am 29.04.2014 03:53, schrieb Amir Ladsgroup:
It's not a big deal, parsing it would be no problem, I can use it in parsing data from Bio template in Italian Wikipedia but I have to use "precision" argument in snak. Am I right?
Yes, exactly.
what value have to set for precision if I have just year (and no month and day)?
If you just have they yea, the precision value would be 9. This is arbitrary and obscure, sorry. I have filed a bug to fix this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64593
For reference, here is the table of precisions to be used for time values, as defined in the TimeValue class:
const PRECISION_Ga = 0; // Gigayear const PRECISION_100Ma = 1; // 100 Megayears const PRECISION_10Ma = 2; // 10 Megayears const PRECISION_Ma = 3; // Megayear const PRECISION_100ka = 4; // 100 Kiloyears const PRECISION_10ka = 5; // 10 Kiloyears const PRECISION_ka = 6; // Kiloyear const PRECISION_100a = 7; // 100 years const PRECISION_10a = 8; // 10 years const PRECISION_YEAR = 9; const PRECISION_MONTH = 10; const PRECISION_DAY = 11; const PRECISION_HOUR = 12; const PRECISION_MINUTE = 13; const PRECISION_SECOND = 14;
If you have something like "between 1846 and 1855", you can use the "before" and "after" fields of the time value:
time: "+00000001850-00-00T00:00:00Z", precision: 9, before: 4, after: 5
This means the "main" value is 1850, given as a year, with a lower bound four years before and an upper bound 5 years after the "main" value (before and after are given in the unit specified by the precision value). The "main" value is what is going to be displayed per default; it will also be used for sorting query results (once we have queries).
This is a bit complicated, but should allow you to actually represent uncertain dates. We made it so you can be precise about the uncertainty :)
HTH Daniel
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Daniel Kinzler < daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:
If you have something like "between 1846 and 1855", you can use the "before" and "after" fields of the time value:
time: "+00000001850-00-00T00:00:00Z", precision: 9, before: 4, after: 5
This means the "main" value is 1850, given as a year, with a lower bound four years before and an upper bound 5 years after the "main" value (before and after are given in the unit specified by the precision value). The "main" value is what is going to be displayed per default; it will also be used for sorting query results (once we have queries).
Is it possible to have just an lower bond, leaving the upper one open? I am thinking of uses like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Generic#earliest_da...
For things like "circa" I don't see any clear solution other than "inventing" some ranges...
Micru
David Cuenca, 29/04/2014 17:25:
For things like "circa" I don't see any clear solution other than "inventing" some ranges...
For something like "circa 5 BCE" the range could be the decade in question maybe? Just as "circa 3 billions years ago" has a billion year range or you'd say "circa 3.000 billions" etc.
For things like etym, "ante 1321" for "circa" in Italian could be translated to 960–1321 (from date of birth of the Italian language).
But we're rapidly going offtopic here, maybe the talk of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel#Dates_and_times would be better.
Nemo
Am 29.04.2014 17:25, schrieb David Cuenca:
Is it possible to have just an lower bond, leaving the upper one open?
No. It's a precision interval, not a range. Range Snaks may be introduced in the future, but for now, you should use dedicated properties for start and end to express a range.
I am thinking of uses like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Generic#earliest_da...
That's exactly the kind of property that *doesn't* need an interval or open precision: the earliest date is a precise point.
For things like "circa" I don't see any clear solution other than "inventing" some ranges...
Yes. I think it's reasonable to do that along the same lines that you do when reading "ca 1850": I would read that as +/- 10 year. "ca 2014" is probably +/- 1 year, and "around August 1986" is +/- 1 month, while "around August 10" is probably +/- a week or so.
-- daniel
Do you know why this edit isn't shown correctly? https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4119465&diff=123932128&o...
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de
wrote:
Am 29.04.2014 17:25, schrieb David Cuenca:
Is it possible to have just an lower bond, leaving the upper one open?
No. It's a precision interval, not a range. Range Snaks may be introduced in the future, but for now, you should use dedicated properties for start and end to express a range.
I am thinking of uses like
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Generic#earliest_da...
That's exactly the kind of property that *doesn't* need an interval or open precision: the earliest date is a precise point.
For things like "circa" I don't see any clear solution other than
"inventing"
some ranges...
Yes. I think it's reasonable to do that along the same lines that you do when reading "ca 1850": I would read that as +/- 10 year. "ca 2014" is probably +/- 1 year, and "around August 1986" is +/- 1 month, while "around August 10" is probably +/- a week or so.
-- daniel
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
Do you know why this edit isn't shown correctly? https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4119465&diff=123932128&o...
Will have a look. Thx.
Cheers Lydia
this problem is being tracked in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60999
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
Do you know why this edit isn't shown correctly?
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4119465&diff=123932128&o...
Will have a look. Thx.
Cheers Lydia
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