Hi Thomas.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Economics is looking to
do something a bit like this. It has been moving slowly as we waited for a
currency datatype to become available but that has now happened so it
should start moving.

https://opencorporates.com/ is also working on something similar to this.

My comments on your Volkswagen page.
* Nice presentation. Looks good
* No indications of where the data comes from. How do I double check this
info?
* English only
* Are you sure the copyright to this info isn't owned by Bloomberg or
Reuters or someone?

Good luck

Joe


On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:42 PM Thomas Flassbeck <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
>
> [People not interested in financial data can stop reading here - this is
> only indirectly related to Wikidata but I asked Lydia and John for
> permission to post this so I hope you don't mind]
>
>
> my name is Thomas and I am the co-founder of a new crowd-sourcing website
> for fundamental financial data (that is our focus is clearly on finance, so
> I don't think we are a "competitor" of Wikidata) called SimFin.
>
>
> I am writing to you because we launched our open beta just two weeks ago
> and we are now looking for feedback, especially from people with experience
> in working in a crowd-powered-environment where data is in a structured
> way, just like at Wikidata.
>
>
> I would be especially interested in your feedback regarding the data
> entering and review process, since I coded and designed the whole system
> myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as
> possible.
>
>
> Just to make it clear, all the data on our site is freely accessible and
> can be exported quickly. In fact, the core idea behind SimFin is to offer a
> free service that can rival professional (and very expensive) tools used to
> access fundamental financial data, such as Bloomberg or Factset, in terms
> of functionality, while still being free because of the community generated
> content.
>
>
> Some links:
> Homepage: https://simfin.com
> Sample company page: https://simfin.com/data/companies/1
> The same company in wikidata as reference, there are some similarities:
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578
>
>
> Thanks for reading
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> Thomas
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