2012/8/14 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de:
In general I am a strong believer of "let's start with the simple thing", which is to let editors add transliterations (that is why we have a label field for every entity in every language).
I may see a use case for a transliteration-bot that does some of the transliterations (semi?)automatically, but I actually would think that this is probably something that should be left to the community.
There might be some simple cases for language fallbacks (including transliterations) but we have not touched that development item yet. We have to see how this works out.
But in short, I am wary of automatic systems and rather would count on the knowledge of the editors.
I hope that makes sense,
This makes perfect sense and I agree.
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