On 13/06/14 15:52, Bene* wrote:
...
Did I understand you right, Markus, that you leave out all statements
which have at least one qualifier? Wouldn't it make more sense to leave
out the qualifiers only but add the statements without qualifiers
anyway? Because this would solve eg. Gerard's problem with Ronald Reagan.
But it would introduce other problems. Qualifiers are often used with
time information, for example to record many historic population figures
of one town. If you just leave away the qualifiers you get many
different population numbers that cannot be distinguished.
Simply put:
* Leaving away statements makes the export incomplete (as Wikidata
always is, just to a larger degree).
* Leaving away qualifiers makes the export incorrect (since it replaces
statements by different statements that may or may not hold true).
We could do both and let the users choose what they find more acceptable
(if any), but we started with the first approach. If someone says they
need the second approach for their application to work, we could
implement this, but I'd rather wait to see if anybody wants this.
Best,
Markus
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