User talk:NEverett (WMF)

Please slow down a bit
I will correct the problem within the next hour. --Dcirovic (talk) 17:16, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Dcirovic, it looks like it is still going full speed. NEverett (WMF) (talk) 13:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

CirrusSearch
Great work! Helps me allot. Thank you very much! --Zulu55 (talk) 16:50, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

WikiData RDF dump format
I was reading the WikiData RDF Dump Format for which you are listed as the lead. I noticed there is no talk page for this project page, so I doubted making a comment there would get any attention.

In the part about time, it says The simple value of the time value is either datetime value of type, if the value can be converted to Gregorian date in ISO format, or a string as represented in the database, if not. The dates follow XSD 1.1 standard, i.e. 1 BCE is year 0.

I think this statement should be improved, because ISO has issued many date and time standards over the years, and because XSD 1.1 has some differences from ISO 8601 that might be unimportant for current events, but are crucial for some of the ancient or future events that can be represented in WikiData. For example, ISO 8601 requires that all dates in a given context have the same number of digits in the year, so today would have to be written 00000002016-02-26T00:00:00-05:00 if one also wanted to be able to represent the age of the universe. So I suggest either removing the mention of ISO entirely, or use a wishy-washy connection. If you insist on mentioning ISO, the statement might become: The simple value of the time value is either datetime value of type, if the value can be converted to Gregorian date in ISO format , or a string as represented in the database, if not. The dates follow XSD 1.1 standard ( inspired by ISO 8601 ), i.e. 1 BCE is year 0. Jc3s5h (talk) 18:29, 20 February 2016 (UTC)