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(a)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
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