Hoi,
Are you going to use this info in a blogpost or something ? If not is it ok
for me to do so ??
Thanks,
Gerard
On 3 November 2013 09:02, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.sewrote:
Since August we are implementing Wikidata for the Swedish 290 communes and
1900 towns, including automatic update from the authority Statistic
Sweden to Wikidata.
Our original assumption was that it would take us 8 month but it now seems
it will not be enough, it will probably be more like a year to get it fully
implemented, and I thought our experiences could be of interest to several
(even excluding anything of the WD community or the science of properites
etc)
QUALITY
My assumption was that the Swedish articles was 98% correct but that
Wikidata ought to have 99,8% correct info. We found, though, as a start
that WD was only 96% correct as it has been loaded from en:wp, which is,
from a Q point for these entities, worse then de.wp, nl:wp and sw:wp. A
critical information, that was missing, was the communcode/towncode, that
is needed to implement an automatic update. In practice this has meat we
have had to manually check and complement all objects on WD, that with its
primitive interface meant it taking a very long time, one of us even
temporary getting repetitive strain injury
INTRICACIES
When we have created articles on sv:wp we have only covered some finer
intricacies of these entities in the article text. But with Wikidata it is
not enough, it has to be handled fully correct. Trosa commun existed
1971-1973, was then merged into Nyköpings commun and 1994 broken out with
some more areas to become again a Trosa commun. Sv.wp hase only one article
for Trosa commun, but for wikidata we have created two entities one called
Trosa commun (1971-73), whos corresponding entity on sw.wp is a redirect.
Another example: Statistic Sweden defines the boundary of a town by strange
advanced citerias meaning a real town is some year is seen by them as two
towns. We have of these reasons been forced to define new properties, and
create some hundred new entities in Wikidata, and check the corresponding
redirect articles on sv:wp, giving them Categories etc, all OK but it takes
time...
POTENTIAL
We are still convinced of the strong potential of WIkidata, but believe
the full benefits requires an a (semi)automatic update of data from the
authorities databases. In our case Statistic Sweden are positive,
believe in Open data and have a nice API, but it is a new component for us
to take care of, the datatransfer/update program/script, who will be
responsible for this etc?
Experience from others are welcome to us
Anders
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