Le 2013-03-15 13:16, Thomas Douillard a écrit :
2013/3/15 Mathieu Stumpf <psychosl...@culture-libre.org>
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 think that's yet another case where a project like Wikikultur[1]
would be interesting. As interpretation methologies could possibly be
novel works, both the description and critics of it could be published
as seperated essays on such a project.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikultur
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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