Smalyshev added a comment. The idea of localized units is great, however I wonder about the following things. Let's say we express quantities in all kinds of different units, so if we have a property for the area of the country, one country would have it in square meters, another in square kilometers, yet another in square feet or hectares. Now we want to see which country has the biggest area. That would be quite a challenge. So if we want Wikidata to be machine-friendly data collection that could be processed by automated tools, how do we ensure the quantities of some kind have units that can be automatically handled together efficiently - i.e. even if we know how to convert square kilometers to square feet and vice versa, how do we efficiently index such things?
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