On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Markus Kroetzsch <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > As you may know, statements in Wikidata can be marked as "preferred" or > "deprecated" to distinguish them from the "normal" ones. > > I found that many items have perfectly valid historical statements marked as > "deprecated". For example, our showcase item "Kleinmachnow" > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104192 > > has a statement "population: 20,086 (point in time: 2011)" that is confirmed > by a reference. Nevertheless, the statement is marked as "deprecated". This > would mean that the statement "the popluation was 20,086 in 2011" is wrong. > As far as I can tell, this is not the case. > > It seems that somebody wanted to indicate that this old population is no > longer current. This is achieved not by deprecating the old value, but by > setting another (newer) value as "preferred". > > Similar problems occur for the mayor of this town. > > I hope there is no deeper confusion in the community regarding this intended > use of "preferred" and "deprecated". Most other items are using it > correctly, it seems. The fact that it occurs in a showcase item is still > making me a bit concerned.
At least on this item they were set by a now inactive user. Do you have more items to see if it is the same user there? Can someone fix the ranks in that item please? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Ranking seems fine wrt deprecated rank and I've not seen much confusion around it. 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 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
