Hi all,
What I don't understand is the need to keep all labels blank until
they are updated by hand. Especially for biographical articles, it
would be nice to have original spellings of the person's name, even if
it's Chinese or something else really far away from English. That
might serve as a prompt to people to update the label more than blank,
no? Take a look at this person:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11287651
There are so many variants in spelling of the name, but I consider
them all correct, depending on the source. In the case of historical
people, can't a bot go through and update the labels so that queries
will return something? Anything is better than blank, I think.
Jane
2014-05-05 10:57 GMT+02:00, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hoi,
When the "other languages" box needs to become more flexible, it is a
different problem that has nothing to do with the ability to understand
what statements are made. At this time it is an absolute inability when
there is no label in *YOUR* language.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 May 2014 10:21, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Am 05.05.2014 01:35, schrieb Joe Filceolaire:
I agree with Gerard that you only edit your
language label in the
'label' edit
box. If the label box is showing the label in a
fallback language then
it should
be visually different - greyed out and italic for
instance or like the
'edit
label in English' text. If a user wants to
edit other language labels
then that
is what the 'in other languages' boxes
are for.
That's probably a good approach, but would need the "other languages" box
to
become more flexible, and include aliases. It's also strange to have it
visually
separate from the thing you actually want to change. Not easy to get this
right.
-- daniel
--
Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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