I would like to add "minister", as there are some fine distinctions on who is and who's not in a government. Still we call them all "ministers". Very confusing, and very obvious at the same time.
There are also the differences in organisation of American municipalities, oh what a glorious mess! Then you have the differences between a state and its different main/bi-lands, not to say the not inhabited parts. It is a lot that don't have an obvious description. And btw, twin cities, I found a lot of errors and pretended I didn't see them. Don't tell anyone. On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Markus Krötzsch < [email protected]> wrote: > On 28.09.2015 13:31, Luca Martinelli wrote: > >> 2015-09-28 11:16 GMT+02:00 Markus Krötzsch <[email protected] >> >: >> >>> If this is the case, then maybe it >>> should just be kept as an intentionally broad property that captures >>> what we >>> now find in the Wikipedias. >>> >> >> +1, the more broad the application of certain property is, the better. >> We really don't need to be 100% specific with a property, if we can >> exploit qualifiers. >> > > I would not completely agree to this: otherwise we could just have a > property "related to" and use qualifiers for the rest ;-) It's always about > finding the right balance for each case. Many properties (probably most) > have a predominant natural definition that is quite clear. Take "parent" as > a simple example of a property that can have a very strict definition > (biological parent) and still be practically useful and easy to understand. > The trouble is often with properties that have a legal/political meaning > since they are different in each legislation (which in itself changes over > space and time). "Twin city" is such a case; "mayor" is another; also > classes like "company" are like this. I think we do well to stick to the > "folk terminology" in such cases, which lacks precision but caters to our > users. > > This can then be refined in the mid and long term (maybe using qualifiers, > more properties, or new editing conventions). Each domain could have a > dedicated Wikiproject to work this out (the Wikiproject Names is a great > example of such an effort [1]). > > Markus > > [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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