I also think classes do not have the importance thy deserve in Wikidata yet. Everything is centered around properties and the property creation right who entails the editorial process.
This might change in the future depnding on how Queries are implemented :) I'd love that we could use Queries items in «instance of» sand «subclass of» statements and that we could indeed verify that any instance of the subclass is also an instance of the superclass with the help of queries :) 2015-08-01 6:48 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > Hoi, > The main point I get is that DBpedia is used and usable > > If anything all the rest are things where Wikidata has its problems in > equal measure. As I read it, Wikidata has a bigger community with some > people doing a lot of muddling with the most wonderful subclasses and > hierarchy that are often unknown by others and happily ignored.Come to > think of it, When the data quality is compared, I doubt Wikidata will be so > great because there is so much just not there.. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 31 July 2015 at 22:59, Markus Kroetzsch <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Vladimir Alexiev has published an interesting post on issues he >> encountered when using DBpedia at OntoText, drawing many comparisons to >> Wikidata [1]. While this post praises the practices of Wikidata in several >> places, I think there are a few important insights for Wikidata there as >> well. There are certainly points where Wikidata is running into similar >> issues (if you have had a look at our class hierarchy recently, you know >> what I mean). Even in the cases where we are doing good, it might be >> valuable to obtain some feedback and reconfirmation from another >> perspective. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Markus >> >> [1] >> http://vladimiralexiev.github.io/pres/20150209-dbpedia/dbpedia-problems-long.html >> >> -- >> Markus Kroetzsch >> Faculty of Computer Science >> Technische Universität Dresden >> +49 351 463 38486 >> http://korrekt.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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