On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Mathieu Stumpf <[email protected]> wrote: > Now to give my own opinion of the representation/ontology you are building, > I would say that it's based on exactly the opposite premisses I would use. > Wikidata Q1 is universe, then you have earth, life, death and human, and it > seems to me that the ontology you are building have the same > anthropocentrist bias of the universe. To my mind, should I peak a central > concept to begin with, I would not take universe, but perception, because > perceptions are what is given to you before you even have a concept for it. > Even within solipsism you can't deny perceptions (at least as long as the > solipcist pretend to exist, but if she doesn't, who care about the opinion > of a non-existing person :P). Well I wouldn't want to flood this list with > epistemological concerns, but it just to say that even for a someone like me > that you may probably categorise as western-minded, this "ontology" looks > like the opposite of my personal opinion on the matter. I don't say that I > am right and the rest of the community is wrong. I say that I doubt that you > can build an ontology which would fit every cultural represantions into a > tree of concepts. But maybe it's not your goal in the first place, so you > may explain me what is your goal then.
The Q-numbers are randomly assigned (except for a few easter eggs). They have no relation to the importance of the item they represent or its place in any kind of ontology. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
