daniel added a comment. @geraki I agree that +/- 1 is a bad default for population. The only default that would be even worse is +/- 0.
The issue is that we need a heuristic that isn't specific to population, or to counts, but can be used for //all// quantities, including measured amounts. In science, there's a convention to indicate the level of uncertainty using the number of digits given. So 3.21 would imply an uncertainty of +/- 0.01, and 7e2 would imply +/- 100. The same convention dictates that the uncertainty of the number 44376 is +/-1. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68580 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: daniel Cc: Izno, Smalyshev, kaldari, Gareth, Ayack, geraki, Bugreporter, DSGalaktos, Wikidata-bugs, SPQRobin, jayvdb, Snaterlicious, Liuxinyu970226, Lydia_Pintscher, daniel, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
