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Autodescription — humanity (Q1156970)
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Why there is no humanity article in English (google: define:humanity), just the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human. If there is no english version of that page, what's the point of having it? It seems there is another page for Humanity at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3143163, so I'm confused. The above was added on 23 okt 2014 12:22 by Kenorb
- Hi Kenorb, the word 'humanity' can have several meanings in English. One of those meanings is the abstract notion of mankind, all people of past, present and future together. Apparently there is no article on the English Wikipedia about this notion, but there are articles in German (de:Menschheit), Esperanto (eo:Homaro), Russian (ru:Человечество) and several other languages about it. This item links those articles together. Of course an English article is not a condition for having a Wikidata item, as though there exists nothing outside the English speaking countries!
- As said above, the word humanity has other meanings as well, for example the virtue which all humans should have to each other (and to animals). The page en:Humanity on the English Wikipedia gives an overview of these various meanings. This is called a 'diaambiguation page' because it helps to solve the ambiguity (confusion) regarding this word. The other item you mentioned, Humanity (Q3143163), links to those disambiguation pages. Those pages have a different goal, that's why there is a separate item for them here on Wikidata. Bever (talk) 06:04, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
Update description for Universe instead of just World ?[edit]
Eventually we will colonize Mars, its planned and will happen eventually, although probably limited. I would suggest we update the description to "the sum of all humans living in the universe". Thadguidry (talk) 13:48, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Well, note that world (Q16502) and Earth (Q2) are already different concepts; I'd imagine the existence of a viable extraterrestrial human colony would expand the first definition beyond the scope of the second. So far however, every human who has ever lived has lived on Earth, and only briefly (both on a personal scale and in the span of human history and prehistory) on the Moon or in space within the Earth-Moon system. If and when that changes, if Wikidata is still around I'm sure the label would get updated. Arlo Barnes (talk) 01:45, 15 November 2021 (UTC)