The great thing about MediaWiki is that we don't have to anticipate new features, we can build them in later when we discover that they're possible and that they're wanted. In fact, there's no requirement that the Wikidata developers are even the ones that do develop said hypothetical future modules. If you could code, you could build them and offer them up for integration.
All that being said, there are already websites that map out astronomical features in a geolocation-like way. It's worthwhile to consider supporting that type of geolocation data on Wikidata. Sven On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Scott MacLeod < worlduniversityandsch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Denny, > > Thanks for this. > > Are there ways to structure this geolocation data now to anticipate more > 'fluid' uses of it, say 5 or 10 years from now, or beyond, in representing > water, or astronomical processes, in something like interactive, realistic > models of the earth or the universe, which would also be useful to > Wikipedia's developing goals / mission? > > Scott > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Gregor Hagedorn > <g.m.haged...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > Now, I don't think we need or want ranges as a data type at all (better >> have >> > separate properties for the beginning and end). >> >> I am afraid this will then put a heavy burden on users to enter, >> proofread, and output values. Data input becomes dispersed, because >> the value "18-25 cm length " has to be split and entered separately. >> You have to write a custom output for each property then, and do all >> the query logic (> lower, < upper) for each property in each Wikipedia >> client. >> >> I believe this is something that is healthy to do centrally. >> I believe the concept of intervals exists because of that. >> >> Gregor >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > > > > -- > > > Scott MacLeod > Founder & President > > > > http://scottmacleod.com > > -- > World University and School > (like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) > > http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/ > > http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University > > P.O. Box 442, > (86 Ridgecrest Road), > Canyon, CA 94516 > > 415 480 4577 > worlduniversityandsch...@gmail.com > Skype: scottm100 > > Google + main, WUaS pages: > https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts > > https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts > > Please contribute, and invite friends to contribute, tax deductibly, via > PayPal and credit card: > > http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm > > World University and School is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational > organization. > > > > > World University and School is sending you this because of your interest > in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, > please reply with 'remove' in the subject line. Thank you. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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