In my experience, the problems highlighted here (e.g. lack of coverage, consistency, and/or accuracy) are typical of collaborative data projects such as Wikidata and Wikipedia. Using Wikidata and the likes to power entity-oriented applications automatically is always challenging. But I guess the lack of constraints is also one of the main reasons why those projects are successful :)
@Darren: can you elaborate on "I wondered if anyone else is actively working on fleshing out the company data within Wikidata?". I guess most edits are manually made by individual editors based on personal interest. And dataset imports are typically both small-scale and specific, like this recent project to import video games companies: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Dataset_Imports/Video_Game_Companies Cheers. -N. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:27 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Darren Cook, 23/01/19 12:07: > > I wondered if anyone else is actively working on fleshing out the > > company data within Wikidata? > > There's also > < > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Organizations#Where_to_potentially_search_for_properties > >. > > What always puzzles me is that Wikidata has tons of details about > entities but almost nothing when it comes to the basics, such as > revenues/budget and number of employees, the kind of information which > is most often updated in infoboxes. > > Federico > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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