Dear all,
I thank you for your answers. I am sure that using Wikidata to support Arabic dialects
including Tunisian is simpler. Effectively, all what should be done is to translate
Mediawiki system messages and add labels, descriptions and aliases to all Wikidata items
and properties. However, we are facing several problems. Now, according to
https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Language_statistics_for_items, we have added
3,711 labels, 3,324 descriptions and 217,740 aliases in Arabic Script. Although we were
behind the labels and descriptions, we do not find how the aliases were added. I ask if I
can see and track these aliases so that I can verify if they are accurate. We found as
well that 196,119 labels, 3 descriptions and 23,581 aliases were added in Latin Script
(AEB-LATN). After verification, we found that Mr. Marcus Cyron is who added the important
output for Latin Script. In fact, he automatically considers the English name of a
European or American person as the label of this person in AEB-LATN. If we consider
Arabizi as the Latin Script of Tunisian, the rule should be "The French name of a
person is considered de facto as the label of this person in AEB-LATN except when the
person was born or lives in an OIC country
(
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Organisation_of_Islami…quot;.
Mr. Marcus Cyron is kindly required to adjust this rule and he is thanked in advance to
apply it on all Wikidata entities. He can also apply the rule to non-OIC towns. Concerning
AEB, I ask if a module can be added to Wikidata so that it automatically considers all
labels, descriptions and aliases of AEB-ARAB as the ones of AEB.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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