This effort is super to see. As a Wikidata dilettante I was wondering if any thought has gone into what to do when data sources do not agree about a particular measurement. For example, consider the most basic example from the format [3]:
Population was __________ in ____
What if the World Bank says the population was 313.9 milion in 2012 but the US
Census says it was 313,999,179 on July 19, 2012? Is there the ability to record
the source of the data in Wikidata?
Population was __________ in ____ according to ______
Otherwise couldn’t the bots potentially stomp on each other? Or will some
coordination happen where data from a particular source and bot will be
privileged over others? How will that be documented? Or perhaps bots can watch
for disagreements about a measurement (different value for the same property at
the same time) and flag them for downstream processing by people? In a way,
seeing how divergent these data sources are is interesting in itself.
I’m not trying to throw a wrench into the gears, I was just curious if there is
an established Wikidata way to answer this question when it (inevitably) comes
up. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but it seems to me that people disagreeing on
Wikipedia is a substantially different situation than bots disagreeing on
Wikidata. The bots will trample on each others work without a care, but people
have the potential to discuss, negotiate and arrive at a solution. It seems
like we might need to build some of this care into the data collection tools
proposed for this project?
//Ed
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Economic_Map:_Format
On Jun 8, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Alex Peek <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are a new project looking for volunteers.
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> Project homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Economic_Map
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