| Shonagon added a comment. |
An example reported today of consequence of this issue.
In Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336070 "6. century" is displayed but in French Wikipedia https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9nandre_le_Protecteur on the infobox linked to Wikidata , "7. century" was displayed.
"600"/precision:century was stored in Wikidata but the common convention in French (and English) for such date is to considered it from 7th century. The issue does not only concern display in Wikidata but also reuse of the data in other environments. Beginning the century in 600 or 601 is a convention but maybe the choice could be leaded by data processings.
Another issue is the partial display of such date in Wikidata, where finding what is really stored is only accessible to power users. The person who reported the problem of wrong century in Wikipedia based on Wikidata, could not understand and even less fix it.
Cc: Shonagon, Liuxinyu970226, Larske, Marsupium, Nicolas_Raoul, Pharos, Ricordisamoa, Aklapper, Jc3s5h, Wikidata-bugs, GPHemsley, Krenair, thiemowmde, Snaterlicious, Lydia_Pintscher, daniel, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, aude, Mbch331
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