I remember seeing a question from someone asking about dates-of-battles a few months ago; I don't know if it was related to this.
One issue that came up in the discussion is that a lot of battles don't have a "date" - instead, they have a "start date" and "end date". (This is more of an issue in the last couple of centuries; not many older battles lasted more than a day). It looks like they've managed to cope with this - for example, their system picked up https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911448 which has start and end - but it's a good reminder that eg/ looking for "date" may not always tell you quite what you expect on the first glance :-) Andrew. On 2 March 2016 at 21:53, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > "They found 12,703 battles which had an exact location and date, 2,657 of them > are from Wikidata, the others are from DPpedia." > > Maybe we can do better? > > Am 02.03.2016 um 22:14 schrieb Lydia Pintscher: >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:14 PM Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hoi, >> Yup I missed that one.. this [1] was my source :) >> Gerard >> >> [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35685889 >> >> >> This is really great. I am thrilled about this because this isn't coverage >> about >> Wikidata but coverage _with_ Wikidata on major news sites for the second time >> this week >> (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/academy-awards-die-oscars-von-1929-bis-heute-12820119.html >> being >> the other one). They're using Wikidata data to do meaningful reporting. Our >> data >> and the project as a whole got (at the very least) good enough for this. It >> feels to me like we've broken through a wall. >> High5 everyone! :D >> >> Cheers >> Lydia >> -- >> Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher >> Product Manager for Wikidata >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. >> Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 >> 10963 Berlin >> www.wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de> >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. >> >> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter >> der >> Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für >> Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Senior Software Developer > > Wikimedia Deutschland > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
