It's always possible to transliterate the
official name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1448>property. Of course this
should be done by a gadget, or we may have to find a special treatment for
the ''name'' properties.
2015-04-28 23:06 GMT+02:00 Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire(a)gmail.com>om>:
I agree up to a point. Transliteration is not
appropriate for labels
for all items. There are however a few categories of items for which
transliterated labels are appropriate. For example :
* English labels for villages and towns
* English labels for people
*English labels for bands and albums
I'm sure there are others that could use this too.
Joe
On 27 Apr 2015 18:09, "Leon Liesener" <leon.liesener(a)wikipedia.de>
wrote:
> The problem with ISO is that it's a standard for language-independent
> transliteration to Latin script. Since labels on Wikidata are
> language-dependent, making use of ISO does not make sense really. If
> you use ISO for Russian names in Cyrillic script, the label you get is
> not in English. It's still in Russian but transliterated to Latin
> script. ISO thus would only fit as an alias for the Russian interface
> language, if at all.
>
> 2015-04-26 22:39 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
> >:
> > Hoi,
> > <grin> ISO is a reliable source; it is THE standard </grin>
> Wikipedia is
> > definitely not a standard by its own admission.
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> > On 26 April 2015 at 22:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2015-04-26 22:33, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hoi
> >>> My point is that it is not a given that we should follow any
> WIkipedia
> >>> for anything. Also the point of romanisation of Russian is not for
> the
> >>> benefit of Russian speakers, it is for the speakers of English.
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> GerardM
> >>>
> >>
> >> On one hand, yes.
> >>
> >> On the other hand, no reliable source uses ISO. When NYT writes
> about a
> >> Russian person, they do not use ISO, they use what the English
> Wikipedia
> >> uses or smth similar. In my passport, they do not use ISO
> (fortunately), why
> >> should then ISO be used on Wikidata in an entry about me?
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Yaroslav
> >>
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