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> Il giorno 09 giu 2016, alle ore 02:23, Minh Nguyen > <m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> ha scritto: > > If I understand correctly, you’re referring to a situation where, for > instance, Wikipedia editors have opted to discuss both an “administrative > territorial entity” and its government in the same article, whereas Wikidata > editors have decided to separate the concepts into two different items at least the former is very common for cities I believe (didn't conduct a scientific study about it though), I'm not so sure how common the latter is, my impression when I last looked was that many of the socio geographic entities are still missing in wikidata (so rather than using 2 distinct objects there is one which corresponds to a part of the article), their editors seem to have a preference for political administrative entities. > > Wikipedia tends to be proactive about creating separate articles when > there’s a notable distinction between the various meanings of a name, but > Wikidata follows suit almost as a rule. So there is a 1:1 correspondence > between the various meanings of China on the English Wikipedia and the > various Wikidata items for those meanings. `wikipedia=en:China` maps to > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148>, which is for the People's Republic. If > the mapper had a different definition of China in mind, both the `wikipedia` > and `wikidata` tags would reflect that. clearly the china article in wp/en has a much broader scope than the linked Wikidata item people's republic of china. The latter starts looking at things from 1949, Wikipedia "China" some thousand years earlier. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
