daniel added a comment. > It seems to me the purpose of a database is to store the best available > conclusion, in a calendar that is, or can be converted to, the Gregorian > calendar. Discussion of the merits of various pieces of evidence is fine for > history journals, or even a Wikipedia article, but doesn't seem appropriate > for Wikidata in its current state.
Wikidata is not a database, it is a knowledge base. A database system is designed to answer queries, so it needs to be able to compare values. For that reason, you want normalized values in a database. For the Wikidata query service, we (plan to) do exactly what you say: we convert to Gregorian, using our best guess. But for the primary data that is maintained on Wikidata, we want to represent the knowledge as given in the original source we quite - including (up to a point) the inaccuracies, oddities, and mistakes. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85296 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: daniel Cc: Lydia_Pintscher, Jc3s5h, Liuxinyu970226, Ricordisamoa, Addshore, thiemowmde, JanZerebecki, Aklapper, daniel, Smalyshev, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Malyacko _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
