I have started https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Modeling which is
supposed to be a place where we index and discuss models used in Wikidata,
and the problem of item classification is the first of all. There is also a
home made classification of domain of applications of models, which is not
inspired at all by GND, but I think is more useful.

Cheers, TomT0m


2013/6/30 Sven Manguard <[email protected]>

> I have just closed a second deletion discussion for Property:P107 - main
> type (GND).
>
> As with the first discussion, it is clear that there is a broad sense
> that main type (GND) is not an ideal solution, however as it stands now, a
> large enough portion of the community does not want to get rid of it
> unless/until a replacement system is found or developed. For this reason, I
> closed the discussion as no consensus and opened up a request for comment
> on the matter of finding a replacement for P107.
>
> I have gone to the unusual step of emailing the mailing list for three
> reasons. First, P107 is the most used property on the project, and it or
> its replacement will (most likely) remain the most used property on the
> project forever. Second, the GND has evolved into a component of how
> Wikidata is structured; our lists of properties are sorted by GND type, and
> that has a real impact on what properties are used on what pages. The third
> reason is that, as a general statement, participation levels in requests
> for comment have been downright sad. Three or four people participating in
> an RfC is, for a project of this size, unhealthy, and most RfCs don't get
> more than that many people participating in them. For something this
> important, we need at least a dozen people, preferably at least twice that.
> </rant>
>
> Anyways, the RfC is at
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Primary_sorting_propertyand
>  I hope that, with broad participation, we can finally resolve this
> issue.
>
> Yours,
> Sven
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