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2015-04-23 16:22 GMT+02:00 Edward Betts <edw...@4angle.com>: > James Heald <j.he...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > > The post last autumn said you had 176,000 items matched to OSM, a very > large > > proportion of which (at least at that time) had no P31 "instance of", but > > you had been able to deduce this from Wikipedia. > > > > Would it be possible to start loading Wikidata with that information -- > ie > > complete the P31's that were missing? > > The code that generates the mappings uses Wikipedia categories, and it > makes > some mistakes. Take beaches for example: > > http://edwardbetts.com/osm-wikidata/2015-04-18/match_results/Beaches.html > > Some of the Wikidata items are about a beach, some about a settlement next > to > a beach. All of them are in within a beaches category on Wikipedia. It > would > be wrong to say that a settle with a beach is an instance of a beach. > > For this reason it probably doesn't make sense to add 'instance of' > statements > automatically. > -- > Edward. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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