Item talk:Q1

Inception date

Even though people celebrate October 29, 2012 as the inception data of Wikidata, I changed the date to October 25, 2012 on this wiki. Why? For consistency reasons: It is impossible to figure out the correct inception dates in retrospect other than checking for the first edit on the wiki. I believe this is the only date that can consistently be determined. Cheers --Kghbln (talk) 09:02, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

I think that is correct so far as we define inception date to be the date the wiki went online for the first time, ever. If revision 1 is dated to October 25 then that would be the inception date, even if the official "opening" was a few days later. Could we have both values as claims on the item, with one value qualified as the "observed" birthday? Harej (talk) 16:22, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

To additionally have an "observed" birthday makes sense. Not sure how to best name it. We will not be able to fill it in most cases though. --Kghbln (talk) 16:26, 18 September 2023 (UTC)