2013/3/15 Mathieu Stumpf <[email protected]> > Le 2013-03-14 19:38, Michael Hale a écrit : > > A topic I've been involved in recently regards statistics for gun >> violence in the US. The government publishes a big report every year, >> but it takes them most of the year to collect the information from all >> of the local police agencies and compile the results. Several English >> Wikipedia articles use this information, and it would be awesome if >> the tables in the articles could be generated automatically from data >> in Wikidata. It seems like ideally I would have some code I would run >> whenever they release the new report that would automatically import >> all of the data into Wikidata and add the appropriate references. I >> suppose the information would go in the item for each city. Say for >> the Atlanta item, there would be a statement for murders and the value >> would be a number and the qualifier for these statements would just be >> "2011" or whatever. Then I would want to be able to have a template >> that automatically makes a table to show the 5 most recent years >> somewhere in the Atlanta article for example. >> > > That's great. Now we should also provide with each statiscal generated > information an explanation of how it was interpreted. Numbers aren't as > objective as one may believe, so we should take care to explain > methodologies we use. > > kind regards, > mathieu >
Good point, is there any thought yet on where to put these informations ? Wikidata does not really seems the right place to put it, neither Wikipedia in the general case, maybe commons ? I thought until now that the "source" of a claim was supposed to point to whom collected the datas in the first place, could it be something else like a url pointing to a file describing the collection and interpretation of datas ? Thomas
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