There is a better alternative to storing lists - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tabular_Data -- it allows you to store a CSV-like table of data on Commons, with localized columns, and access it from all other wikis from the <graph> and Lua scripts.
A good example of it -- "per state GDP" page -- see graph in the upper right corner.
Page: List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP Data: GDP_by_state.tab https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Bea.gov/GDP_by_state.tab
Wikidata is not very well suited for lists data, but tabular data was designed for a relatively large (up to 2mb) lists.
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Marco Neumann marco.neumann@gmail.com wrote:
great I will be on site as well, so we will have a little more time to discuss this in detail.
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu wrote:
Hi Marco,
I agree that many of these lists and tables could be harvested (with some care, of course).
However, I don't think that the information they contain should go to the Wikidata item they are associated with. This Wikidata item mostly exists to store inter-language links, but is poorly connected to the rest of the knowledge graph. This tax revenue and GDP information should go to the country items themselves.
I am working on the problem of extraction of statements from lists and tables and will write a tutorial when the tools are ready. WikidataCon attendees might have a glimpse of that in this session: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/
Submissions/OpenRefine_demo
Cheers, Antonin
On 17/10/2017 12:07, Marco Neumann wrote:
I have noticed a lack of actual data in wikidata representations of wikipedia list.
for example
List of countries by tax revenue to GDP ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_
revenue_to_GDP_ratio
to
List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP (Q2529105) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2529105
is there currently a development in the wikidata community to transform these lists into wikibase items and last but not least produce RDF respresentations for WDQS?
best, Marco
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