Jc3s5h added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105623#1623500, @Jc3s5h wrote:
> If the least significant digit is m time ten to the nth power, I would set > the default uncertainty to 5 times ten to the nth power, which is the > greatest uncertainty that might apply in that situation. If the uncertainty > were any worse, the person who wrote the value should have used fewer > significant digits. In other words, the default should be the worst > reasonable uncertainty; let the editor specify if the error is better than > this. On further reflection, I would do what I described above, unless there was only one significant digit. In that case I would set the precision to 1 times ten to the n. Examples: 7000 ± 1000; 1920 ± 50. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105623 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jc3s5h Cc: Jc3s5h, thiemowmde, kaldari, daniel, Stryn, Lydia_Pintscher, Liuxinyu970226, Snipre, Event, Ash_Crow, mgrabovsky, Micru, Denny, He7d3r, Bene, Wikidata-bugs, Ricordisamoa, Kelson, MSGJ, Klortho, Wolfvoll, Aklapper, aude _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
