The problem I see with this practice is that a user doesn't get any feedback that he is entering 'invalid' values.
Lukas
Am Fr 22.11.2013 16:19, schrieb John Lewis:
You are correct.
John
On Friday, 22 November 2013, Lukas Benedix wrote:
As far as I know this is done by bots and not by the wikibase extension. Am I right with that? Lukas Am Fr 22.11.2013 13:46, schrieb Andrew Gray: > Perhaps automated constraint checking would be simpler to set up? > > We have this for some properties already: > > http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P21 > > For population, for example, the check could be "is greater than or > equal to 0, is a whole number" > > Andrew. > > On 22 November 2013 10:37, Lukas Benedix <benedix@zedat.fu-berlin.de <javascript:;>> wrote: >> A few points: >> >> * Population should not be negative, would be nice if you can define a >> min or max value in the property >> * it's possible to enter 42.23 >> * if entering 23,42 the result is only 23 >> * if I try to enter "twenty three" there is no hint that only numbers >> are accepted >> * someone should try to add a string via the api >> >> Lukas >> >> >> Am Fr 22.11.2013 00:01, schrieb Lydia Pintscher: >>> Hey everyone! >>> >>> We have a first version of the quantities datatype available for >>> testing now on test.wikidata.org <http://test.wikidata.org>. It still has a few rough edges that >>> we need to fix before we can enable it on Wikidata but I wanted to >>> give you a chance to test it now already and help find issues early. >>> >>> Here's a test property using the quantities datatype: >>> https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P63 >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>> Lydia >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l--
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