Hoi,
Wikidata is not Freebase and no thanks.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 15 June 2015 at 18:07, Thad Guidry <thadgui...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Benjamin has the right idea... and we did similar in Freebase in handling
> that same way... sometimes it was a manual labor of love... most of the
> time, we just deleted them and hoped that Wikipedia would make them real
> topic entities later on for us to properly absorb.
>
> How Wikidata decided to handle, I don't care...if you keep them around,
> then just give users a way to filter them out in your API's is all that I
> ask. :)
>
>
> Thad
> +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Benjamin Good <ben.mcgee.g...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is an important question. There are apparently 196,839 known list
>> items based on a query for instanceOf Wikipedia list item
>> (CLAIM[31:13406463])
>>
>> http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=CLAIM%5B31%3A13406463%5D
>>
>> I tend to agree with Thad that these kinds of items aren't really what we
>> want filling in WikiData. In fact replacing them with the ability to
>> generate them automatically based on queries is a primary use case for
>> wikidata. But just deleting them doesn't entirely make sense either
>> because they are key signposts into things that ought to be brought into
>> wikidata properly. The items in these lists clearly matter..
>>
>> Ideally we could generate a bot that would examine each of these lists
>> and identify the unifying properties that should be added to the items
>> within the list that would enable the list to be reproduced by a query.
>>
>> I disagree that this reasoning suggests deleting items about categories
>> and disambiguation pages. - both of these clearly have functions in
>> wikidata. I'm not sure what the function of a list entity is.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> By this reasoning we should also delete items about categories or
>>> disambiguation pages.
>>>
>>> Thad Guidry, 15/06/2015 17:21:
>>>
>>>> Ex. List of tallest buildings in Wuhan -
>>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6642364
>>>>
>>>
>>> What's the issue here? The item doesn't actually contain any list, there
>>> is no duplication or information "clumped together".
>>>
>>> Nemo
>>>
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