On 04/04/12 19:13, emijrp wrote:
I'm not sure if that kind of data will be desirable at Wikidata (not my personal opinion, just thinking about community).
For example, a lot of city articles contain info about temperature and precipitation[1], but, are we going to import into Wikidata all the temperature values from 1900 to present? (daily averages? minute-by minute?)
I don't know what are the limits of Wikidata, but, we need some limits to work, probably.
WikiData should support foreign data repositories. More specifically, it should be possible to use a module which stores the data in a table instead of json in a WikiPage.
If the wikiprecipitation project decides to use minute-by-minute values, he could have a server replicating a www.aemet.es database with such data.
This is more appropiate for data coming from a single authoritative source, than for a crowdsourced approach but will be very welcome by third users and WMF itself when it can substitute huge and inefficient pages with a db table.