I am really disappointed to see simple 2d tables still are not reality...
the issue probably is related to the original PHASE #3...


2014-06-03 23:50 GMT+02:00 Jan Kučera <[email protected]>:

> Can tabular data be currently saved as a series of statements within
> wikidata? If so, how can I create such a series? Am I able to feed such a
> series into a wikitable on some wiki?
>
>
> 2014-05-30 11:19 GMT+02:00 Joe Filceolaire <[email protected]>:
>
> Simple tables that are in wikipedia:
>> * league tables with columns for games won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals
>> against, points, rank  and rows for each of the teams in the league.
>> * election results with columns for votes for each party and seats won by
>> each party and rows for each region, state etc.
>> * population numbers with columns for each tab (races, religion etc.) and
>> rows for each census district.
>>
>> In all of these cases I suspect that this information might be more
>> useful as a series of statements. These could either be broken up with a
>> statement corresponding to each column on the item for each row or
>> alternatively with all the information in the table on one item, a
>> statement for each row and qualifiers to each statement corresponding to
>> each column.
>>
>> What is the advantage to having this as a table instead?
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Jan Kučera <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Well what I meant was just an ordinary 2-dimensional table (rows vs.
>>> columns)... Excel was just an example to make it clear.
>>>
>>> So I guess simple tables are not any roadmap yet right?
>>>
>>> Further step would be an n-dimensional structures... arrays etc.
>>>
>>> I wouldnt care about format.... CSV, JSON...
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-05-27 14:24 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> Please, leave your comments here too:
>>>>
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_datasets
>>>>
>>>> I've been gathering comments from several people, and in the next days
>>>> I will try to summarize these suggestions to be discussed on irc.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Micru
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Ilario Valdelli <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am not an expert of Wikidata but I work a lot in integration of
>>>>> databases with several middlewares or tools.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that the best way is to ask a solution to store and to
>>>>> download data in a format compatible with datasheets like CSV.
>>>>>
>>>>> Excel is considered also a tool to do some basic analysis, but it can
>>>>> be connected easily to a data source (if well structured).
>>>>>
>>>>> Excel itself is not a good approach to store data, so it's not a good
>>>>> solution to keep the data in excel format in a database.
>>>>>
>>>>> Doesn't make sense to store a 2D tables in a database in my opinion
>>>>> because the data have no sense and they are not helpful to anyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> They can be stored like a text file, but I would not imagine the
>>>>> series of errors that can be generated importing these data again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jan Kučera <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D
>>>>>> tables like excel spreadsheets...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jan
>>>>>>
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