Re: [Wikidata] [Spam] Re: No links, wrong data: Scotland's orphans need help

2015-06-03 Thread Dario Taraborelli
I second this. For a related effort, see: https://github.com/pav-ontology/pav/ in particular, pav:sourceLastAccessedOn, pav:lastRefreshedOn, pav:lastUpdateOn http://pav-ontology.github.io/pav/#d4e846 > On Jun 3, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Markus Krötzsch > wrote: > > On 03.06.2015 13:57, Magnus Manske

Re: [Wikidata] [Spam] Re: No links, wrong data: Scotland's orphans need help

2015-06-03 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 03.06.2015 13:57, Magnus Manske wrote: Maybe there is a case to separate import and verification here? There are many statements in Wikidata nowadays, but they get really "trustworthy" through references (other than "imported from Wikipedia"). But for external IDs, references are superfluous;

Re: [Wikidata] [Spam] Re: No links, wrong data: Scotland's orphans need help

2015-06-03 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Thanks, Andrew, for the clarification. This makes perfect sense. I don't see a problem with one bridge having two IDs in some external database. We already have this for other ID-like properties for other reasons. What is important though is that it still is a single bridge, and should therefo

Re: [Wikidata] [Spam] Re: No links, wrong data: Scotland's orphans need help

2015-06-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 3 June 2015 at 12:48, Andrew Gray wrote: > The lack of deduplication is probably intentional rather than a bug, > and both entries are "correct". Perhaps one way to handle this for > Wikidata would be to, hmm, say something like "if the item is some > kind of a bridge, then allow two IDs" in t

Re: [Wikidata] [Spam] Re: No links, wrong data: Scotland's orphans need help

2015-06-03 Thread Magnus Manske
Maybe there is a case to separate import and verification here? There are many statements in Wikidata nowadays, but they get really "trustworthy" through references (other than "imported from Wikipedia"). But for external IDs, references are superfluous; they are their own reference, by definition

Re: [Wikidata] [Spam] Re: No links, wrong data: Scotland's orphans need help

2015-06-03 Thread Andrew Gray
This particular case is something of a known problem - we've encountered it with some of the other heritage-building identifier lists as well. Bridges often span a river which is the border for two jurisdictions (in this case, council areas). Each local area counts it as a historic building, and b