On 11/24/05, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)web.de> wrote:
. .. ...herebox.org... .. . wrote:
on en:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kmweber/List_of_Everyone_Who_Has_Ever_Liv…
disambiguation is one of many problems. ~12 billion entries is likely
well beyond the scalability of the software. Indeed even ~1 billion
entries.
In my opinion, this belongs in a genealogy targetted database.
http://www.google.com/search?q=genealogy
No problem, just wait for WikiData!
Should be right here.
Any minute now. ;-)
Magnus
I'm sure it'll be ready before we have time to write a billion
encyclopedia articles on people!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kmweber/List_of_Everyone_Who_Has_Ever_Liv…
No, it's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_by_name.
Worst case scenario name, birthdate, and place of birth is pretty much
always unique. But disambiguation is something best worked out as you
go. This is really the lamest of the arguments against this.