On 11 March 2015 at 09:23, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
Independent of where it sits now, what where does it aspire to sit?
The uncontested target would be:
- Every lighthouse that is found in any Wikipedia (hence in Wikidata) should
be "instance of lighthouse" and have coordinates and country defined.
A possible target to discuss would be to add:
- Every lighthouse should be in Wikidata.
Whether or not this makes sense depends on how many lighthouses there really are. Maybe we are not so far from completeness. Lighthouses are prominent landmarks of historic, nautic, and touristic interest, so should be valid Wikipedia topics anyway. Moreover, they tend to change very little over time, so data maintenance is relatively easy.
Note that this is quite different from streets, which change names all the time, get created, demolished, and merged, and are much larger in number. From these properties, I think OSM is much better suited for managing this data for now.
I wonder if it would be useful to have a centralised list of "classes of things in Wikidata". For example:
Things entirely in Wikidata
* MEPs * County-level administrative divisions of all countries * All artworks by the following people (list) * Cultural heritage sites in the following countries (list) * All people listed in the following biographical databases (list) * (etc)
Things not yet entirely in Wikidata (but probably will be eventually)
* All national-level elected representatives * All species * Lighthouses * All artworks by the following people (list) * Cultural heritage sites in the following countries (list) * All people listed in the following biographical databases (list)
Things which will never be complete in Wikidata
* All local politicians * Streets worldwide * All businesses
This would be a very useful adjunct to the notability page, as it would give concrete examples to work from for the sort of things we feel are appropriate.