re the birth anomalies, we have been running a process for several years now that looks
for people alive according to certain wikipedias and dead according to up to 80 others.
The format works well and has been broadened to various other anomalies such as being dead
but not born.
The key thing to remember is that when Wikipedias differ you need reliable source to
settle the difference.
Wikidata may or may not make this sort of thing easier, but my suspicion is that resolving
anomalies will improve Wikidata as well as Wikipedia.
Regards
Jonathan (WereSpielChequers)
On 19 Aug 2014, at 22:05,
wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote
Message: 1
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:04:17 -0400
From: MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Compare person data
Message-ID: <D018C23A.422B5%z(a)mzmcbride.com>
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Gerard Meijssen wrote:
What is needed is a report that looks good enough
for now and a public ie
visible place to put it.
Neat idea!
There's <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>, of
course. In my experience, users don't really care what the report is
titled or how it looks; they're much more concerned with accurate and
up-to-date (read: actionable) report data.
One of the benefits of using a wiki page is that wiki pages have pre-built
notification structures (watchlists, RSS feeds, IRC feed, and e-mail).
To this end, depending on who the relevant audience is of this report,
updating multiple pages on local wikis may be a lot more fruitful.
MZMcBride