This is good news, and helps a lot — thanks for taking the time to respond Joe. 
It may be a lot of work, but it would be great if you could reference the 
actual property names by URL for the properties you mentioned.

//Ed

On Jun 9, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Joe Filceolaire <[email protected]> wrote:

> Edward
> 
> Yes Wikidata has a mechanism for adding qualifiers and references to claims.
> 
> Where there are multiple values we can also mark one of them as preferred and 
> then simple queries will just get the preferred value.
> 
> For population figures each value would typically have qualifiers for
> * Point in time (when the population figure applies)
> * Determination method (census, estimate, whatever)
> * Applies to part (total, black, white, christian, muslim etc.)
> And each value would have a reference with the organisation, the url, the 
> date the info was published, the date the info was retrieved etc. 
> 
> The most current total value would be marked as 'preferred'. Values which are 
> widely known but considered unreliable would be included but marked 
> 'deprecated'.
> 
> All these properties have already been implemented and we are starting to add 
> them to items.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:31 AM, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> hi alex,
> 
> i saw on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Economics
> a hint to provide sample data. would it be not an option to provide a
> couple of data points to make the life of persons easier, instead of
> making them open links and tables?
> 
> rupert
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Alex Peek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We are a new project looking for volunteers.
> >
> > Project homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Economic_Map
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
> >
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