Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-07-15/WikiProject report
Latest comment: 8 years ago by TomT0m in topic Discuss this story
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- What we call countries, and regard as immutable, are fluid in so many ways. It's great that Wikipedia documents this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:07, 16 July 2015 (UTC).
- I didn't even know we had a project of former countries. I gotta keep this in mind, because it could be a valuable resource in another year or two. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:25, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
- I'd notice that Wikidata has a lot of similar interesting usecases: how to say in Wikidata using statements that a country (or a type of administrative division and all its divisions) no longer exists ? It happened this year for french cantons (an old divisions that was still used for elections) disapeared ? We can deprecate the statement, or put an end date as a qualifier to the statements, put them as isntance of a class former administrative divisions, and so on. It poses ontological problems wrt. the Wikidata data model and its intended meaning. TomT0m (talk) 10:04, 17 July 2015 (UTC)