Hi Sandra, For between dates, we have https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1319 (earliest date) and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1326 (latest date) as qualifiers. You can set the claim itself on century or whatever then. You can also use P1326 for before dates, I think. Seasons is another thing, I think we need a new property for that. Same for quarters.
But I agree, it should be great if this was integrated more. Showing better suggestions before saving is another thing that could help. Greetings, Sjoerd > Op 18 jan. 2016, om 22:03 heeft Sandra Fauconnier > <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > > Hi folks, > > I do lots of edits related to artworks. Many artworks (and, I assume, many > other things) are dated in the following ways: > > 1. 'between 1850 and 1899’ - on Wikidata that could be ’18. century’ (yep, > needs to be written like that) with qualifiers start date and end date ? > 2. ‘between 1784 and 1787’ - on Wikidata ‘1780s’ with qualifiers? > 3. ‘between 1878 and 1904 - on Wikidata... eeeehm? > > I was wondering: can’t we express this without needing any qualifiers at all? > > We can enter units as ‘320 cm plus/minus 7 cm’, right? > Might we also be able to say ‘1898 plus/minus six years’? > > I can imagine we’d then also have an interface that helps you enter a > ‘between date x and date y’ elegantly without needing to do any math. > > Or would that not be possible? > I think it would be great to have, as it would make our dating conceptually > much more accurate IMO. > > Curious what others think. > Best, Sandra (User:Spinster) > > p.s. On Commons we have an {{Other date}} template that’s used very > frequently, that allows rich time/date expressions, and that I really love. > Here’s the documentation: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Other_date > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Other_date> > > Besides this ‘between’ concept, it also has, among other things > * before (date) or after (date) - also very common! > * seasons - you can say ‘Spring 1986’ > * first/last half/quarter (year, decade, century) etc > Some might not be translatable to a period as I suggested above, but some may. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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