Vladimir et. all Would you please remove me - [email protected] from the email string.
Thank you Tim Horan On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 6:39 AM, Vladimir Alexiev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there another property that could be substituted instead on Wikidata? > > Unfortunately no. > > > the categories seemed so logical. > > It IS logical to use an existing category for this purpose. > > But the WD community has rejected my proposal > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ > Archive/30#category (and the previous one “useful for / interesting to”) > because: > - categories are a bit messy, since many people use them for various > purposes > - synchronizing cat-item assignments between WD and Wikipedias would be a > major hassle. > > They even rejected having such property that is NOT synced with > Wikipedias, for project purposes like > yours (Black Lunch Table) and mine (Europeana Food and Drink, European > Holocaust Research Infrastructure). > > WD does have a bunch of over-specific categories, e.g. “people > born/died/buried here”. See > https://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/browse?activepage=1&; > type=properties&lang=en&propertylabelfilter=category > > Does anyone think we should reopen the discussion for creating props > Category and/or InterestingTo? > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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