Hi Marco, I agree that many of these lists and tables could be harvested (with some care, of course).
However, I don't think that the information they contain should go to the Wikidata item they are associated with. This Wikidata item mostly exists to store inter-language links, but is poorly connected to the rest of the knowledge graph. This tax revenue and GDP information should go to the country items themselves. I am working on the problem of extraction of statements from lists and tables and will write a tutorial when the tools are ready. WikidataCon attendees might have a glimpse of that in this session: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Submissions/OpenRefine_demo Cheers, Antonin On 17/10/2017 12:07, Marco Neumann wrote: > I have noticed a lack of actual data in wikidata representations of > wikipedia list. > > for example > > List of countries by tax revenue to GDP ratio > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio > > to > > List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP (Q2529105) > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2529105 > > > is there currently a development in the wikidata community to > transform these lists into wikibase items and last but not least > produce RDF respresentations for WDQS? > > best, > Marco > _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
