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 > > -- > Prof. Dr. Markus Kroetzsch > Knowledge-Based Systems Group > Faculty of Computer Science > TU Dresden > +49 351 463 38486 > https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/KBS/en > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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