Eric,
Been pondering your question over the weekend and want to give a starter
use-case as an example
I authored an article on WikiPedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_systemically_important_banks. Take
a look at that an imagine an additional column "Total Assets". (There is
more discussion of this on it's talk page).
See also:
The German version:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_global_systemrelevanter_Banken
The French version:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banque_syst%C3%A9mique
Imagine, if they weren't sleeping here, Japanese, Chinese and other
versions of the same
I envision all COMPANY DATA from those banks would actually be stored
ONLY ONCE on WikiData. Then the chart would be exactly the same on the
English, French and German version of the article on WikiPedia - only
the chart LABELS would change to be expressed in English|French|German.
Use-case #1
How to create a table in WikiPedia that draws its COMPANY DATA (during
the HTML page assembly) from WikiData? Also, how any user
(French|German|English) could do the "data entry" task on ANY of those
companies, and have that data only stored ONCE on WikiData?
Use-case #2
Same as above but would like to not only draw data from WikiData (such
as total assets) but be able to store the total assets for each bank
ONLY in it's native reported currency. Would like to TRANSFORM that
SINGLE, "GOLD COPY" of the total assets data as stored in WikiData "ON
THE FLY" (during HTML page assembly) into the native currency of the
WikiPedia user using TODAYS EXCHANGE RATE. That exchange rate would also
be stored, ONLY ONCE, in WikiData. The "transformation" here is easy, a
simple multiplication.
There are many other technical challenges to be address, such as
aligning ontologies across countries, dealing with conflicting external
standards, linking challenges, basic datatypes for financial & economic
data including time series and tic by tic data, dealing with dirty data,
etc. Above is just an example, but very much on my mind as a challenge
representative of a large class of problems in getting "Company Data"
off on a good track at WikiData to facilitate moving forward.
Rick
On 1/20/2017 12:01 PM, Eric Scott wrote:
What technical aspects do you think you'll need help with?
On 01/18/2017 09:10 PM, Rick Labs wrote:
I especially need guidance from the WikiData
developers/ontologists/project management regarding current and
potential scope, and potential help with some of the detailed
technical aspects.
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