Hoi,
I have been REALLY active in adding statements with "is a list of" They do
have a function. They show the content of a list in Reasonator.
I do appreciate it when they are retained. They are both lists and
categories.
THanks,
GerardM
On 15 June 2015 at 17:53, 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
>>
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