2013/2/27 Janko Mihelić <[email protected]>: > It is providing context. The goal of Wikidata isn't to become a catalog of > Wikipedia articles, it is to become a big semantic database that has lots of > structured data (which is, conveniently, described in Wikipedia articles).
fine, but they apparently started the db with article names, so it is just the same for now, and it doesn't really look as if they read all articles in all languages to check for consistency. If someone links a wikipedia=it:foo at least you know that he checked this language. If he adds a neutral link to a series of articles (like wikidata) you won't know which of these articles he is referring to ;-) > If we want, we can refine the data in Wikidata to better suit our needs, of > course, if our requests make sense to Wikidatans. first we would have to create a lot more entities there, many wikipedia articles would have more than one wikidata-object I guess. Then there would have to be attributes and classes to describe in details the object that the entry is about, a link to an article with lots of free text just doesn't do it. Personally in OSM I am using additionally to operator the tag ref:vatin to map the VAT Identification Number of a business, which is unique and you get it on every receipt when you buy something. There are also databases around listing all these businesses. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
