On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > > I do not know if you have seen the statistics compiled by Magnus [1]. > They > are up to date and useful. > > I blogged about it [2]. As far as I am concerned, the biggest > challenge > we > face is the lack of labels. Given that 280+ languages are represented > in > Wikidata it clearly demonstrates that Wikidata is useless as it is > for > most > languages. Please tell me that I am wrong and explain why. This is correct to a certain degree. However we have language fallbacks on the roadmap which will significantly help improve the situation. Liangent has put a lot of effort into this over the summer during Google Summer of Code. The other thing is that there is clearly a number of items which are more used than others. My theory is that they are also the ones that are more complete. If there is no label in a small language for a very obscure item than this is less bad as when there is none for a much-used item. Not all items are created equal. We should keep that in mind when interpreting statistics. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l