Hi Amir,
I had the same question: are we losing information be deleting labels? (or
maybe more precisely, what information are you losing?)
I'm not sure of the answer but here an important fact: Moldovan is supposed
to be in Cyrillic but a lot of label in "mo" are not in Cyrillic
(especially for human beings).
Moving them to an other code label seems a good idea, I'll leave the
decision to linguists but ro-Cyrl sounds interesting.
Moving them to a property is a bad idea, that's not the way to do it on
Wikidata (and property with text values still need an ISO code).
Cdlt, ~nicolas
2018-02-12 16:41 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>il>:
Now that I think of it a bit more, perhaps we
shouldn't rush with deleting
labels.
Moldovan in the Cyrillic alphabet is not used much now, and "mo" is a
retired language code, but while Moldova was in the Soviet Union, this
language was the language of education, press, literature, TV, and other
media for over a million people. So, it's valuable to have structured
documentation about how are names of cities and villages in Moldova, names
of Moldovan people, and a lot of other relevant things are written in this
language.
I'm not sure that a label under the retired "mo" code is the right way to
do it. Perhaps we could have labels in ro-cyrillic, and perhaps we could
have this data as Wikidata property values rather than labels. I'm not that
much of an expert in Wikidata to make this decision. But simply deleting
labels without at least a bit of extra thought is probably not the right
thing to do.
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2018-02-09 16:51 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>il>:
Hi,
So now the Moldovan Wikipedia (mo) is deleted (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projec
ts/Deletion_of_Moldovan_Wikipedia_2 ).
But there are still a few sitelinks on Wikidata to this wiki, e.g.:
*
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5296
*
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21197
*
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217
There may be more.
I guess that they should be deleted. All the labels of items and
properties in this language should also be removed. It must be made
impossible to add new ones. The raionale is that the language code is not
valid.
I proposed this here, but didn't get any replies yet:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Delete_a_wiki
Does everybody in the Langcom agree? If nobody objects, I'll make a
technical proposal in Phabricator in a week.
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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