Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Wikidata/Support ISO 8601-2:2019 to specify uncertainty about times

Support ISO 8601-2:2019 to specify uncertainty about times

  • Problem: Many times sources specify a date with some uncertainty. A source might say that a person died between 1341 and 1345, or that it was approximately created at a certain date.
  • Who would benefit: Anyone who wants to record data with uncertainty in a way similar to what the sources say.
  • Proposed solution: Adopt the ways of specifying Time Interval, Qualification of a date and Unspecified digit(s) from the right layed out in ISO 8601-2:2019 (described in http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/edtf.html). This would allow writing 1341/1345 for a date of death between 1341 and 1345.
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  • Phabricator tickets: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207705
  • Proposer: ChristianKl21:33, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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