Is it limiting your freedom, if a little popup comes up and tells you
"maybe you should enter a positive integer here... if you insist on
123.45 press save, but the bots will come and revert your edit"
Like a speed limit that is not limiting your freedom to speed, but maybe
it reminds you to the consequences...
Am Fr 22.11.2013 22:52, schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
So instead better to limit your freedom to express
yourself in the
first place.
I'd take the bot. At least in the history of the article it is
recorded that it was tried to enter 123.45 for a population, and we
can later figure out what was happening.
Why not wait and see if this is really a problem? I wonder how many
such mistakes will ever be entered, besides "jokes" and vandalism. And
the latter is easier to catch if we don't require the pranksters to
use data that sounds correct. Do we have any indication that
contributors are being supported by a system that doesn't let them
enter negative numbers for populations?
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Lukas Benedix
<benedix(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de <mailto:benedix@zedat.fu-berlin.de>> wrote:
I don't want to feel like John Connor... hunted by a bot that
comes after my edits and reverts them only because I entered
123.45 for a property that should be an integer.
Am Fr 22.11.2013 21:56, schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
It is either obvious that they should be
entering only integers
or positive numbers, in which case such feedback isn't helpful,
or it might end up being too restrictive again. Who tells me that
a system like this won't get used in order to force cities to
have a population of an integer bigger than 10,000?
I understand the wish and desire to restrict user input, but I
would like to remind everyone that Wikidata comes from the wiki
side, which adheres more to the 'let's gather input and then
verify it' than the 'let's make everyone give us correct input in
the first place' side.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Helder . <helder.wiki(a)gmail.com
<mailto:helder.wiki@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Lukas Benedix
<benedix(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de
<mailto:benedix@zedat.fu-berlin.de>> wrote:
The problem I see with this practice is that a
user doesn't
get any feedback
that he is entering 'invalid' values.
+1
Helder
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