Yellowcard added a comment. @kaldari: I understand the argumentation, but it doesn't convince me. Your statements in the linked bug seem very reasoned to me. We agree that information about uncertainty is very important, but for each data we have to //know// the amount of uncertainty specifically. Guessing leads to a much bigger error than ignoring it as long as there is no valid information about the uncertainty.
Therefore, related to this bug: There should be simply //no// information on uncertainty if it has not been stated with the input. All of +/-0, +/-.5 and +/-1 are (most likely) wrong guesses. A good example is the population of a country: All guesses - not matter if +/-0.5 or +/-1 - are wrong and implicate a degree of accuracy that is not given at all. Providing no information on uncertainty instead would be correct as the user of the data would know he has to be careful with it for exact this reason. In case there is //no// information on uncertainty provided, unit conversation can be geared on the number of digits provided. The status quo, however, is a big problem and should be resolved asap. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105623 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Yellowcard Cc: Yellowcard, Jonas, JanZerebecki, harej-NIOSH, Thryduulf, Mike_Peel, Jc3s5h, thiemowmde, kaldari, daniel, Stryn, Lydia_Pintscher, Liuxinyu970226, Snipre, Event, Ash_Crow, mgrabovsky, Micru, Denny, He7d3r, Bene, Wikidata-bugs, Ricordisamoa, Kelson, MSGJ, Wolfvoll, Aklapper, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
