Without discussing each point, let me just pick out one example:
>
> astronomic objects,
>
> The same: one article about the moons of Uranus vs. one for each.
Wikidata can (and probably will) store information about each moon of
Uranus, e.g., its mass. It does probably not make sense to store the
mass of "Moons of Uranus" if there is such an article. It does not help
to know that the article "Moons on Uranus" also talks (among other
things) about some moon that has a particular mass: you need to know
what *exactly* you are talking about to exploit this data. An article on
"Moons of Uranus" could still (eventually) embed Wikidata data to
improve its display, but this data must refer to individual moons, not
to the article as a whole.
There is no question that there are many difficult modelling cases (one
article or many? how many? etc.), but these cases will not go away in
any of the alternative proposals that have been made in this thread.
Markus
On 03/04/12 07:37, Bináris wrote:
2012/4/2 Markus Krötzsch <markus.kroetz...@cs.ox.ac.uk
<mailto:markus.kroetz...@cs.ox.ac.uk>>
We should take care not to overrate this topic. There are hundreds
of thousands of articles that have a unique, exact match between
different language versions.
Fortunately. But problems and surprises in informatics are always in the
minority of cases. :-)
Cities,
Settlements are drawn together and dissected all the time. Rome may be
one city for one Wikipedia, separate ancient Rome and modern Rome for
the other.
The newest problem in huwiki is a small part of Budapest that has two
articles, one for it as part of the modern city, and one for the
historical standalone settlement (same place, same name). Some wikis
sraw articles together for notability reasons, others dissect because of
extent.
countries,
These are really interesting! Can you tell what Germany is in the terms
of history? Or just Prussia? Prussia is a country that's name leads to a
disambiguation page in many wikis, and no warranty the standalone
articles will match. Or what about Yugoslavia as a country? One wiki may
think to write one article about countries by this name, while another
will handle it in several articles.
works of art,
One wiki writes one article about Leonardo's paintings, the other one
for each. This may be handled by linking to section titles, perhaps?
While entities have a clear meaning, articles about them may not exactly
match.
astronomic objects,
The same: one article about the moons of Uranus vs. one for each.
Etc.
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