A software that does Julian and Gregorian Calendar dates, or why Wikibase is about to lead us into utter confusion

It was in February 2019 at a conference dinner of medievalists in Jena when I was first confronted with the calendar problem which Wikibase had been posing ever since it had digested its first Julian calendar dates. I had given a Wikibase demonstration earlier that day and now I was sitting next to a medievalist who was ready to destroy me: “Wikibase”, he stated, “is a genuine disaster without anyone understanding it.”

I demanded to hear why that should be the case and He asked me to show him the first random medieval date I would find on Wikidata. I had activated my phone and landed on a 16th-century biography…

“See that small print?” he asked, “the dates are all noted as a Gregorian calendar dates before 1584.”

The qualifier was odd.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3467

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