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@mail.huji.ac.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@mail.huji.ac.il>:
Hi,


But there are still a few sitelinks on Wikidata to this wiki, e.g.:

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:

Does everybody in the Langcom agree? If nobody objects, I'll make a technical proposal in Phabricator in a week.

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