On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:24 AM Markus Krötzsch <
mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:

>
> No, you are right: this is of course an issue in the completeness of our
> data. If you zoom in to Europe, you can see that some countries have
> costs full of lighthouses, while others seem to lack them almost
> completely. I think it clearly shows that a lot of our data comes from
> Wikipedias (in some specific language).
>
> In this instance, the issue appears to be that the existing lists on
Wikipedia have not been touched, e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lighthouses_in_Spain

These, including redlinks, could be imported into Wikidata rather easily.
Some already have images.

Ideally, we'd want some "official" (e.g. national, UN) source to
cross-check.
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