Talk:Q10512400
Autodescription — foreign worker (Q10512400)
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- foreign worker (Q10512400)
- worker (Q327055)
- foreigner (Q473741)
- human (Q5)
- →(@) person (Q215627)
- mammal (Q110551885)
- omnivore (Q164509)
- individual animal (Q26401003)
- natural person (Q154954)
- human (Q5)
- foreign worker (Q10512400)
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foreign worker⟩ on wikidata tree visualisation (external tool)(depth=1) - Generic queries for classes
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Wikidata won't allow de:Gastarbeiter to link from en:foreign worker in Languages nav pane because it's linked to the Germany-specific subset of foreign workers (which corresponds to scope of articles de:Gastarbeiter and en:Gastarbeiter, which association by itself is no problem), but it also won't allow de:Arbeitsmigration to link either because it's linked to Wikidata concept "labour migration" (Q6013750), which is linked to en:migrant worker. This apparently produces the nonsensical and unacceptable problem that no German Wikipedia article can be linked in the Languages nav pane of en:foreign worker because they are all "taken", which does not handle the obvious and ubiquitous semantic overlap within and among natural languages. Surely the ontology of Wikidata isn't so flawed as to be defeated so easily, right? If not, what is the solution to this instance? If so, what does that say about the general case? As I write that question, my gut tells me that probably no one will even answer this talk page question. If that outcome occurs, it will effectively provide an answer to my question, which would be that no one knows, no one cares, and no one has any solution to the general-case problem. But that outcome would be troubling because with all the hype around ontologies and taxonomies and graph databases and natural language processing nowadays, we laypeople are led to believe that computer science has developed solutions to such obvious basic problems. If I am missing something, I hope that someone will help out by explaining in reply. Quercus solaris (talk) 15:57, 29 April 2018 (UTC) Update I have begun the path toward figuring out the answer. I just got from Help:FAQ to Wikidata:Interwiki conflicts, which looks directly relevant to this problem. I created a ticket at Wikidata:Interwiki_conflicts/Unresolved/2018#foreign_worker_(Q10512400)/gastarbeiter_(Q644903). Quercus solaris (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2018 (UTC)