Hi,
I had a discussion on sunday in the IRC about a related topic.
I was wondering where the HTML-title comes from. There is some
language fallback mechanism. (I'm not sure where the title comes
from, maybe from the labels only or the linked wikipedia
articles.)
My suggestion is to take this title and paste it into the label
input box. When a user goes to a site with no label in his
language, he can see the "fallback title" and save it, if it is
correct. I'm not talking about writing fallback labels into the db
automatically, just make it easy for people to validate and save
this fallback labels.
Instead of an allmost empty page like:
http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/k6cxo00uzl_2013-10-18_13.48.56.png
He would see something like:
http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/5j2n4e86ox_2013-10-18_13.50.25.png
One problem with this could be that only one thing (link or
statement) can be edited at one time in wikidata right now. The
other things should not be deactivated for the label fallback
mechanism.
Another problem is, that a lot of Wikidata items have different
names in different languages, but for persons this should work for
> 90%.
Lukas
Am Fr 18.10.2013 07:41, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
Is there a bot to add labels to Wikidata ?
It seems that the majority of the Wikidata items have only
one label. To be useful, to be available to search, it is
imperative that a label exists. The obvious value is the name
of the Wikipedia article. It is better to have that as a label
than no label..
Is there a bot that will populate Wikidata based on the
existing interwiki links and, is it possible to have the name
of a new article added as a label when a new Wikipedia article
is added as an interwiki link?
Thanks,
Gerard
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