On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Andrea Di Menna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since DBpedia is an effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia, then
> whether something is in Wikipedia or not is not a matter of interpretation.
> It is a simple fact.
>
> Also as per my understanding, DBpedia is not trying to filter Wikipedia
> data by crosschecking facts and statements.
> The Persondata template is a source of valuable information and hence it
> is used to extract structured data from Wikipedia biographies.
> Still it is possible it contains wrong data, this is the drawback of a
> community curated encyclopedia.
>
Let me try restating it in a different way. Information which is invisible
(because persondata template is not rendered) is much less likely to be
correct.
Tom
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
> 2013/4/26 Tom Morris <[email protected]>
>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The information is in Wikipedia, and thus also in DBpedia.
>>>
>>> The source code of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questlove contains the
>>> following section (visible when you click 'edit page' and scroll
>>> down):
>>>
>>> {{Persondata
>>> |NAME=Thompson, Ahmir Khalib
>>> |ALTERNATIVE NAMES=?uestlove
>>> |SHORT DESCRIPTION=[[African-American]] musician
>>> |DATE OF BIRTH=January 20, 1971
>>> |PLACE OF BIRTH=[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], [[United States]]
>>> |DATE OF DEATH=November 24, 2008
>>> |PLACE OF DEATH==[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], [[United States]]
>>> }}
>>>
>>> That's why DBpedia extracted a death date. If you think this is an
>>> error, you should edit the Wikipedia page.
>>>
>>
>> I think whether or not it's "in" Wikipedia is a matter of interpretation.
>> If the information isn't being rendered on the page, as is the case
>> currently, how is anyone going to know that it's wrong (or even there)?
>> I'm not sure why it isn't being rendered.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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