Is there a way we could have more than just the number of language links?
Eg number of incoming links from other wikipedia pages?

On Aug 2, 2016 10:41 PM, "Markus Kroetzsch" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 02.08.2016 20:59, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
>
>> Am 02.08.2016 um 20:19 schrieb Markus Kroetzsch:
>>
>>> Oh, there is a little misunderstanding here. I have not suggested to
>>> create a
>>> property "number of sitelinks in this document". What I propose instead
>>> is to
>>> create a property "number of sitelinks for the document associated with
>>> this
>>> entity". The domain of this suggested property is entity. The advantage
>>> of this
>>> proposal over the thing that you understood is that it makes queries much
>>> simpler, since you usually want to sort items by this value, not
>>> documents. One
>>> could also have a property for number of sitelinks per document, but I
>>> don't
>>> think it has such a clear use case.
>>>
>>
>> "number of sitelinks for the document associated with this entity"
>> strikes me as
>> semantically odd, which was the point of my earlier mail. I'd much rather
>> have
>> "number of sitelinks in this document". You are right that the primary
>> use would
>> be to "rank" items, and that it would be more conveniant to have the count
>> assocdiated directly with the item (the entity), but I fear it will lead
>> to a
>> blurring of the line between information about the entity, and
>> information about
>> the document. That is already a common point of confusion, and I'd rather
>> keep
>> that separation very clear. I also don't think that one level of
>> indirection
>> would be orribly complicated.
>>
>> To me it's just natural to include the sitelink info on the same level as
>> we
>> provide a timestmap or revision id: for the document.
>>
>>
> I just proposed the simple and straightforward way to solve the practical
> problem at hand. It leads to shorter, more readable queries that execute
> faster. (I don't claim originality for this; it is the obvious solution to
> the problem and most people would arrive at exactly the same conclusion).
>
> Your concern is based on the assumption that there is some kind of
> psychological effect that a particular RDF encoding would have on users. I
> don't think that there is any such effect. Our users will not confuse the
> city of Paris with an RDF document just because of some data in the RDF
> store.
>
> Markus
>
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