Markus Krötzsch wrote: > This is a valid point. It is intended to address this as follows: > > * Wikidata items (our "content pages") will be in *exact* > correspondence to (zero or more) Wikipedia articles in different > languages. > > * Differences in scope will lead to different Wikidata items.
I suppose that this will either lead to fuzzy scopes, because there are many subtle differences in scope between articles in different Wikipedia language, or to an inflation of poorly connected, rather similar Wikidata entities because every Wikipedia language requires its own Wikidata entities. > * Relationships such as "broader" or "narrower" can be expressed > as relations between these items, if desired. In any way, you must admit that there is no simple 1-to-1 relationship between articles in different Wikipedias. This fact should be acknowledged in the design of Wikidata. To me the current solution looks like you just ignore the problem at the basic layer and hope that it gets magically solved by the community ;-) > The advantage of this is that the possible relationships are not > system-defined but can be selected and modified by the community. This is not an advantage per se but a design decision. You always need to define some constraints by the system and let some other possibilities open. If you say "Relationships _such as_ 'broader' or 'narrower'" you do not acknowledge any basic kinds of relationships between Wikipedia articles in different languages. There may be arguments to do so, but I don't see them at the moment. Jakob P.S: Could you please all try to use the terms from Wikidata glossary? For instance there is no such thing as a "Wikidata item" but an "Entity" or a "Page". -- Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) Digitale Bibliothek - Jakob Voß Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1 37073 Goettingen - Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242 http://www.gbv.de [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
