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Aug 9 2021

Sillyfolkboy added a comment to T288491: Model information at Wikidata so wikidata lists are possible for every country medal winner.
  • P54 ("member of sports team"); not sure whether the current definition of the property and the delegation items
Aug 9 2021, 11:39 PM · Wikimania-Hackathon-2021

Aug 4 2021

Sillyfolkboy added a comment to T288171: [Session] Olympics data-thon and edit-a-thon.

FYI - I started an overview of structure of Olympic events a couple of years ago and there are still probably some open questions on that. The athletics-oriented Open Track data model may be of use for considering competition data structures.

Aug 4 2021, 10:17 PM · Wikimania-Hackathon-2021

Apr 8 2018

Sillyfolkboy added a comment to T145532: HH:MM:SS time in Wikidata (new datatype or display option for quantity datatype?) .

On the point of precision, just read the detail at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes#Time. If possible we will need precision up to a hundredth of a second (e.g. 800 metres world record is 1:40.91). Precision only up to tenths of a second (e.g. 9.2 seconds) is also a very common usage for historic hand-timed data - electronic timing only became more widespread from 1970 onwards.

Apr 8 2018, 12:25 AM · DataTypes, DataValues, patch-welcome, MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseRepository, Wikidata
Sillyfolkboy added a comment to T145532: HH:MM:SS time in Wikidata (new datatype or display option for quantity datatype?) .

I have been discussing known issues of this data type with the webmaster at Association of Road Racing Statisticians and he has raised a point about needing precision. For example, if only the hours are known rather than the seconds, then that "03:00:00" would be different from "03:00:00" measured to the second. I'm presuming we can cater for that distinction with a precision qualifier, rather than needing to account for that at base level?

Apr 8 2018, 12:05 AM · DataTypes, DataValues, patch-welcome, MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseRepository, Wikidata
Sillyfolkboy added a comment to T145532: HH:MM:SS time in Wikidata (new datatype or display option for quantity datatype?) .

The proposal is not for expressing time-of-day, it is to express a duration. Durations do not have time zones.

What if the duration is more than 24 hours? Should the quantity allow durations greater that 24 hours to be expressed as w days, x hours, y minutes, z seconds?

Apr 8 2018, 12:00 AM · DataTypes, DataValues, patch-welcome, MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseRepository, Wikidata