[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T129823: BC (Before Christ) times are not correct in wikidata

2016-09-22 Thread Luo123n
Luo123n added a comment. @thiemowmde Thanks for clarifying the representation of BC years. That is very helpful!TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129823EMAIL PREFERENCEShttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/To: Luo123nCc: Addshore, Lydia_Pintscher, Jonas,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T129823: BC (Before Christ) times are not correct in wikidata

2016-09-22 Thread Luo123n
Luo123n added a comment. @thiemowmde "in Wikidata" and "Wikidata says" refers to the Wikidata webpage. For example, the Wikidata page for Cleopatra (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q635) says she died in 29 BC while Wikipedia says she died in 30 BC. The problem here is that, the internal

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T129823: BC (Before Christ) times are not correct in wikidata

2016-08-05 Thread Jc3s5h
Jc3s5h added a comment. Consider the item for Horace, Q6197. We know from Encyclopedia Britannica, among other sources, his actual date of death was 27 November 8 BCE of the Julian calendar. The user interface displays the same, 27 November 8 BCE. The documentation for the RDF and JSON seem to