> On 9 Sep 2015, at 22:08, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Lydia Pintscher
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey everyone :)
>> 
>> As promised we just enabled support for quantities with units on
>> Wikidata. So from now on you'll be able to store fancy things like the
>> height of a mountain or the boiling point of an element.
>> 
>> Quite a few properties have been waiting on unit support before they
>> are created. I assume they will be created in the next hours and then
>> you can go ahead and add all of the measurements.
> 
> For anyone who is curious: Here is the list of properties already
> created since unit support is available:
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListProperties/quantity&limit=50&offset=103
> and here is the list of properties that were waiting on unit support:
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pending/2
> Those should change over the next hours/days.

Sweet!

It seems to assume a default uncertainty on values, though: I just added the 
elevation above sea level to:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1513315
just specifying the central value, and it assumes that this value is +- 0.1 km 
- which isn't a good assumption to make...

Thanks,
Mike


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