Discussions on crism
language
What happened to your comments on my language types? Lost to the void it seems. Is this a discussion bug or a sinister plot?
"Deaths in [date]" topics
Chris, I notice you've added the type "deceased person" to these topics; my intuition was that since the topics were lists of people rather than people, they shouldn't be typed "person" at all. But since you seemed to be acting with purpose, I stopped my reflex deletion of the type to raise the query with you!
Hi, dsp13. That type was added by a script I ran, when date of death was moved from Person to the new Deceased Person. I had no intention of asserting personhood of any topic touched by that script, so by all means remove the person types from those topics as you find them. Thanks!
Thanks for getting back. In fact, since they're basically lists: should the topics be there at all? Presumably there's a case for flagging them for deletion (since like wikipedia 'Lists of X' pages in general) whatever information they contain would only replicate some query (here, about deceased people & their date of death).
World Factbook Data for Countries
I notice that you mentioned that you'd added the world factbook data to the sandbox sometime ago, but it hasn't made it into the nonsandbox version. Are you still working on it?
Ήο Κυβερνήτικος! The Factbook data exposed a whole raft of interesting issues with which we’ve been dealing before returning to it. This includes support for units of measurements in properties, time-variant values, and just some general user interface design issues (as adding three dozen properties really changes the look of a page). Stay tuned, though!
Excellent news, I was just worried that it had gone quiet.
I can see that particularly for countries, there could be almost unending statistics which would make the page very busy. Different levels of view seem like a good way of approaching this. Maybe each user could specify which properties they'd like to see on a page, and there could be groups of properties defined as well, so by default only the "overview" properties would be shown.
As I was making various edits, I thought it would be nice when adding a value to be able to also indicate the source of the data, (and possibly to accomodate multiple values from different sources). e.g. the total area of a country is not as well defined as you might think and there are a variety of different sources which give different values for the areas. This is common for many properties, and it'd be nice for any property to be able to say where the data is from.
