I second this. For a related effort, see: https://github.com/pav-ontology/pav/
in particular, pav:sourceLastAccessedOn, pav:lastRefreshedOn, pav:lastUpdateOn http://pav-ontology.github.io/pav/#d4e846 > On Jun 3, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Markus Krötzsch <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> > wrote: > > On 03.06.2015 13:57, Magnus Manske wrote: >> Maybe there is a case to separate import and verification here? >> >> There are many statements in Wikidata nowadays, but they get really >> "trustworthy" through references (other than "imported from Wikipedia"). >> But for external IDs, references are superfluous; they are their own >> reference, by definition. So how about marking IDs with a "verified" (or >> "last verified on") qualifier? Much of such work could be done by bots; >> we could then filter the problematic ones out for manual verification. >> >> As we have no control over external lists, this would have to be >> re-checked ever so often; but, again bots to the rescue. >> > > Yes, I fully support this proposal. > > What do you think about making "last verified on" not a qualifier but (part > of) the reference information? The reference could state where the bot has > looked up the ID and give a time. This would be somewhat similar to what is > now used in Freebase Ids, e.g., in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42. > > In general, it might be useful to have such a "last verified on" property > that can be added to arbitrary references. There are many other uses for > this. One common case would be that a user has changed the value without even > being aware of the reference -- then one would be able to detect this > automatically by comparing the last modification time with the "last verified > on" date. > > Putting the "last verified on" into the references also makes it possible to > have different dates for different references there. > > Regards, > > Markus > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
