I had the same question about “truthy” and why we typed in “wdt” in
Wikidata Query in some places and “wd” in others.

Lukas Werkmeister gave this nice succinct explanation during our Wikicite
training, that may be useful:

https://youtu.be/XLlzTtozRY4?t=2h23m10s

-Andrew




On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:49 AM, Laura Morales <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can somebody please explain (in simple terms) what's the difference
> between "all" and "truthy" RDF dumps? I've read the explanation available
> on the wiki [1] but I still don't get it.
> If I'm just a user of the data, because I want to retrieve information
> about a particular item and link items with other graphs... what am I
> missing/leaving-out by using "truthy" instead of "all"?
> A practical example would be appreciated since it will clarify things, I
> suppose.
>
> [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download#RDF_dumps
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