Benjamin has the right idea... and we did similar in Freebase in handling that same way... sometimes it was a manual labor of love... most of the time, we just deleted them and hoped that Wikipedia would make them real topic entities later on for us to properly absorb.
How Wikidata decided to handle, I don't care...if you keep them around, then just give users a way to filter them out in your API's is all that I ask. :) Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Benjamin Good <ben.mcgee.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is an important question. There are apparently 196,839 known list > items based on a query for instanceOf Wikipedia list item > (CLAIM[31:13406463]) > http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=CLAIM%5B31%3A13406463%5D > > I tend to agree with Thad that these kinds of items aren't really what we > want filling in WikiData. In fact replacing them with the ability to > generate them automatically based on queries is a primary use case for > wikidata. But just deleting them doesn't entirely make sense either > because they are key signposts into things that ought to be brought into > wikidata properly. The items in these lists clearly matter.. > > Ideally we could generate a bot that would examine each of these lists and > identify the unifying properties that should be added to the items within > the list that would enable the list to be reproduced by a query. > > I disagree that this reasoning suggests deleting items about categories > and disambiguation pages. - both of these clearly have functions in > wikidata. I'm not sure what the function of a list entity is. > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> By this reasoning we should also delete items about categories or >> disambiguation pages. >> >> Thad Guidry, 15/06/2015 17:21: >> >>> Ex. List of tallest buildings in Wuhan - >>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6642364 >>> >> >> What's the issue here? The item doesn't actually contain any list, there >> is no duplication or information "clumped together". >> >> Nemo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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