Wikidata:Property proposal/latest end date
latest end date
editOriginally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
Motivation
editWhen uploading a dataset to Wikidata, it's not uncommon to stumble upon time-sensitive data points that lack time stamps. For example, when uploading an association's member directory, the "member of" relationship is hardly ever explicitly documented in the source database. It is rather implicit: the presence of an entity in the catalog indicates a membership status is true at the time of consulting the catalog. In such a scenario, one can use latest start date (P8555) to state that the membership status was true at the time of upload but most likely started at some earlier point in time before the upload date. This works quite fine for an initial upload. However, we lack a property to document an approximate end time when performing subsequent data maintenance uploads. My colleagues and I stumbled upon this challenge when re-uploading RIDEAU members from the Scène Pro (Q111597636) dataset: a handful of organization no longer are members in good standing of Association professionnelle des diffuseurs de spectacles RIDEAU (Q87727957)... but we do not know at which precise point in time their membership status came to an end. We only that their membership status is false at the time of extracting and loading the data to Wikidata. For this and other similar purposes, we believe it would be useful to introduce an end time property mirorring latest start date (P8555).
All three above examples are related to the Scène Pro data upload. If you have further examples from other use cases, please add them.
Notified participants of WikiProject Performing arts --Fjjulien (talk) 15:20, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Note : See this related project chat topic. --Fjjulien (talk) 16:33, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Discussion
edit- Support Beireke1 (talk) 08:02, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
- Support Dlh28 (talk) 19:34, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Fjjulien, Beireke1, Dlh28: Done: latest end date (P12506). Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 23:10, 25 February 2024 (UTC)