Wikidata talk:WikiProject Athletics

Should individual results be on the athlete item or the event item?

Each athlete will compete in different events so we can have statements on the athlete item page detailing the result they achieved in those various events.

Alternatively those statements can be on the event page, listing the athletes who competed in that event and how they did.

Option A - on the athlete item

Item:Athlete

Participated in event: 2014 Winter Olympics

Sport:Downhill Slalom

Time:3 mins 30 secs

Achieved:Semi-finals

Option B - on the event item

Item:2014 Winter Olympics

Competitor:Athlete

Time:3 mins 30 secs

Achieved:Semi-finals

 – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Filceolaire (talk • contribs).

I think they should be on the athlete but clearly linked to the meet, year, and round. There are some meets like Penn Relays (Q3374756) that have been around for over a century and would need millions of results on their page. Meanwhile most professional athletes can only run a few hundred races in their lifetime, maybe a thousand in the most extreme cases.

Also, I think most people's association with a result belongs to an athlete before the event they ran it at. Habst (talk) 21:37, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

New properties

Two new properties for athletes are currently being proposed on Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control. One for Deutsche Ultramarathon-Vereinigung (Q1204310) IDs and the other one for Power of 10 (Q20892680) IDs. Thierry Caro (talk) 23:42, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016

Only this week left for comments: Wikidata:Wikimania 2016 (Thank you for translating this message). --Tobias1984 (talk) 12:04, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

New bot: User:WikiTrackBot

Hi all -- on account of the IAAF's new athlete profile and database revisions which allow access to more complete results per-athlete, I'm developing a Wikidata bot that goes through and adds results to athlete items with an World Athletics athlete ID (P1146) set. The bot may perform other track-related tasks as well -- I'm going through the usual bot approval process and will take extra care to ensure that no incorrect or improperly formatted data is added. In the long run, I hope this will be useful to better-integrate track and field statistics into Wikipedia, which will be especially important next year with the new World Championship (and presumably, eventually Olympic) qualification methods being based upon descending-order lists. As per bot policy I will make a test run of about 150 edits and report back. If we ever decide to change the schema I decide upon, I will be able to do that retroactively as well. I'll link the proposal here once I'm done with it. Thanks, --Habst (talk) 02:18, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

The bot proposal is here and I'd be happy to take any feedback before going larger-scale with it! --Habst (talk) 15:42, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

The bot has been revised a few more times, and it should be approved soon. Of course I can always change it at any time, but please let me know or comment on the proposal page if there's anything you'd like to see before it gets approved. Thanks! --Habst (talk) 05:40, 26 June 2018 (UTC)