Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-16 Thread Tom Morris
Any chance you could put this list up on the wiki? Perhaps in your user space. It'd be interesting to see these issues end up being tracked in Phabricator and hopefully fixed. :) Yours, -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikidata-l mailing list

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-13 Thread Cristian Consonni
2015-04-13 14:54 GMT+02:00 Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com: With this premise, I think that Romaine's proposal for a game is absolutely doable and a good idea. I want to clarify, I mean that I agree with Gerard that the best indication for country for Battle of Stalingrad is URSS, I

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The point is very much that the battle WAS in the USSR. It is not not applicable it is one of the most important battles in the second world war. My point is that we should not forget this. The battle of Uhud was not in Saudi Arabia either... Thanks, GerardM On 13 April 2015 at 12:10,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-13 Thread Magnus Manske
Well, getting a list of violations per country would not be hard, given the dates. There are, for example, 2,300 UK citizens who died 1706 or earlier:

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-13 Thread Cristian Consonni
2015-04-13 14:00 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: The point is very much that the battle WAS in the USSR. It is not not applicable it is one of the most important battles in the second world war. My point is that we should not forget this. The battle of Uhud was not in

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-13 Thread Thomas Douillard
Of course there will always be some things too complicated to be reasonably expressed in Wikidata, or hard to process by software. But in the case of historical datas, we better have to think of a common and practical representation and ways for tools to process datas, because this is totally a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-13 Thread Andrew Gray
This is an example of a more general problem, I think - country is treated as an indefinite concept, which breaks down for historic people as well. To take Magnus's example, Wikidata records that Henry VIII was a citizen of the UK, which would no doubt have surprised him

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-13 Thread Magnus Manske
Huh, just when I sent this mail, I realized that there is a database with nation dates, it's called Wikidata... So I present: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wrong_nationality.html Have fun! On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:43 PM Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: Well, getting

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-13 Thread Cristian Consonni
2015-04-13 18:46 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: So I present: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wrong_nationality.html All links to Wikidata are missing the /wiki/ part. C ___ Wikidata-l mailing list

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-09 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Because the battle of Stalingrad as a battle was not fought by modern day Russia, it was fought by the USSR and Nazi Germany. Associating the battle of Stalingrad with modern day Russia is wrong on so many levels. At the time it was Stalingrad, hence the name. It will never be the battle of

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-08 Thread Roland Cornelissen
Hi, On 05-04-15 16:10, Gerard Meijssen wrote: It does not make sense to couple coordinates with countries... The battle of Stalingrad for instance was firmly in the USSR and not in modern day Russia. Why not? Every Place has a history that can't be evaded. The beautiful part of Linked Data is

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-08 Thread Roland Cornelissen
Hi, On 05-04-15 16:10, Gerard Meijssen wrote: It does not make sense to couple coordinates with countries... The battle of Stalingrad for instance was firmly in the USSR and not in modern day Russia. Why not? Every Place has a history that can't be evaded. The beautiful part of Linked Data is

Re: [Wikidata-l] Suggestions for improvements of Wikidata

2015-04-02 Thread James Heald
As an example of a step towards E1 (outside Wikidata), the list might remember the code-snippet that the DJ wrote for Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TheDJ/wdcat.js If you add importScript('User:TheDJ/wdcat.js'); to your common.js file on Commons, then whenever you