Hi Markus,
Fun! Here's the same query with one additional caveat: it only counts
people known to have been born since 1900.
http://tinyurl.com/jgzxvlq
This removes anyone who is definitely dead (but doesn't have a birth
date), but also cuts out anyone who is alive but where we don't know
either a birth or death date. So it's a more conservative estimate.
(It's a pity WD can't say "dates unknown, but definitely alive"...)
Orders are still much the same, but numbers return drop substantially
- from 21k to 15k for Finland, but only 27k to 25k for Sweden. It
seems Finland has more people, but Sweden has better-documented ones
:-)
A.
On 4 June 2016 at 00:04, Markus Kroetzsch
<markus.kroetzsch(a)tu-dresden.de> wrote:
Hi,
Here is a little fun query to show the relative prominence of several
countries' populations on Wikidata [1]:
http://tinyurl.com/zlq9bfv
Doing this for all countries (not just for EU countries) times out, but you
can get individual numbers for each country using BIND, as for the US:
http://tinyurl.com/huouz39
(576 Wikidata people per million in habitants) or for China (6 Wikidata
people per million in habitants). May serve to show some regional biases but
also some natural effects.
Interestingly, it seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current
population of Finland on Wikidata.
Cheers,
Markus
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples#Wiki…
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