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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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