Hi Daniel, Thanks for adding this. I like your suggestion to turn this into a positive example and a way to get proper references. Will follow suit.
Andra On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andrea! > > As Nicolas pointed out, the map view of WDQS is based on OpenStreetMap. So > the > territory would have to be marked as disputed there. > > However, perhaps you can turn this into a positive example for Wikidata's > flexibility and NPOV afterall: I have added some statements to > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5671580> to show how a territorial > dispute can > be modeled on Wikidata. > > I was lazy and didn't add any sources, though - I didn't know what to make > of > "Donovan 2003" given in Wikipedia, as it doesn't give the title of a > publication. But I suppose sources for these things should be easy to find. > > HTH > daniel > > Am 09.04.2017 um 14:54 schrieb Andra Waagmeester: > > I am currently in Suriname, where I gave a talk on open > data/wikipedia/wikidata. > > Next week there will be a handson session, where I hope to get as much > > contribution from this country as possible. > > > > When I demonstrated the WDQS, the audience took offense in the way > Suriname is > > depicted on the map view used in the WDQS. There is a territorial > dispute with > > the neighboring country Guyana, called the Tigri > > area(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigri_Area). In the WDQS this area is > > currently being drawn as being part of Guyana. The maps drawn in the > WIkipedia > > article shows how the issue is dealt with here when drawing maps. i.e. > The area > > is explicitly drawn as being a territorial dispute, which is more > factual. > > > > Any idea's on how to get a similar mapview on the WDQS? Thanks to > Wikipedia > > Zero, where people can have free access to Wikidata (even in remote > area's), > > there is quite some potential to get people involved in adding local > data. > > Having the current mapview is counter productive. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Andra > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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