2015-09-27 23:03 GMT+02:00 Thad Guidry <thadgui...@gmail.com>: > I have added my viewpoint to the P190 Discussion page. >
Great, thanks! > > Are you seriously saying that a Talk Page (where many are 2 - 10 pages > scrollable) is the culmination of a definition of a property in Wikidata ? > In theory, only the top box should be needed. In practice, since everything in the Wikimedia movement is a work in progress, the talk page are almost always worth reading, especially if you have doubts on how to use it. > > You expect folks to read 10 pages of Talk to fully understand the intent > and how to use a Property in Wikidata ? > No, _I_ do not expect "folks" to read it. But I do expect people who want to improve the use of a property to read it before they setup their own definitions of that property. > > Does WP not value the input of ontologists and researchers ? > I am pretty sure they do (as long as they cite their sources), but that might be out of the scope of this mailing list (which is supposed to cover Wikidata topics, not Wikipedia topics). /Jan > > > Thad > +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Jan Ainali <jan.ain...@wikimedia.se> > wrote: > >> 2015-09-27 22:11 GMT+02:00 Thad Guidry <thadgui...@gmail.com>: >> >>> >>> I have improved the Sister City property with a MUCH better description >>> to save others further grief. >>> >> >> You have improved the English description on the property. However, >> without updating the documentation page (which is the talk page) I guess >> most community members will not notice. Just to take myself as an example, >> I only check the documentation page on how a property is supposed to be >> used, not a random language version description of it. >> >> /Jan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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