On 11 March 2015 at 09:23, Markus Krötzsch <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
>> Independent of where it sits now, what where does it aspire to sit? > > The uncontested target would be: > > * Every lighthouse that is found in any Wikipedia (hence in Wikidata) should > be "instance of lighthouse" and have coordinates and country defined. > > A possible target to discuss would be to add: > > * Every lighthouse should be in Wikidata. > > Whether or not this makes sense depends on how many lighthouses there really > are. Maybe we are not so far from completeness. Lighthouses are prominent > landmarks of historic, nautic, and touristic interest, so should be valid > Wikipedia topics anyway. Moreover, they tend to change very little over > time, so data maintenance is relatively easy. > > Note that this is quite different from streets, which change names all the > time, get created, demolished, and merged, and are much larger in number. > From these properties, I think OSM is much better suited for managing this > data for now. I wonder if it would be useful to have a centralised list of "classes of things in Wikidata". For example: Things entirely in Wikidata * MEPs * County-level administrative divisions of all countries * All artworks by the following people (list) * Cultural heritage sites in the following countries (list) * All people listed in the following biographical databases (list) * (etc) Things not yet entirely in Wikidata (but probably will be eventually) * All national-level elected representatives * All species * Lighthouses * All artworks by the following people (list) * Cultural heritage sites in the following countries (list) * All people listed in the following biographical databases (list) Things which will never be complete in Wikidata * All local politicians * Streets worldwide * All businesses This would be a very useful adjunct to the notability page, as it would give concrete examples to work from for the sort of things we feel are appropriate. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
