2015-07-26 18:28 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
On 26 July 2015 at 16:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
A way can be found, but there are multiple issues to solve:
- the name of the object may not be unique hence we may be unable to
satisfy Wikidata requirements on label/description uniqueness,
Wikidata does not require unique names.
Label are indeed unique but you can add as many alias as you want (see french label on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3533061 ). You just need to choose a primary one, is it a problem ?
- it must be fine to create items that contain no information other than
the name;
No, this is not OK (and they may be deleted); but nor is it necessary.
Why on Earth would someone like to tell nothing but the name ? A lot of properties are very easy to add (P31, P17, P1435, P131, etc.) ; plus, there is some semi-automatic tools to to that « en masse ».
- it must be as easy to add coordinates to multiple items as it is
with an
on-wiki table;
Why?
Can't https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php do that ? (QuickStatements is a wonderful tool but I struggle a little to use it to its full extent).
- it must be easy to publish new groups of items on the go, because the
list is built gradually (and very slowly) as we get new authorisations;
It is.
- there must be a way to automatically make an on-wiki table of items by
region (currently I'm not even sure we can make an on-wiki table of "municipalities of Emilia-Romagna" with Wikidata? let alone listing items which have some connection to them through N levels of P31, P1435, P279
or
whatever);
This is, I believe, possible. For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Wikidata_lists/Items_with...
is built by a bot.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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