Hi! Seems like a superb project! I see no reason why the import should be carried out by a non-paid volunteer. Having it done by one person as opposed to many will keep the the data quality consistent.

I would be happy if this experience would get logged / reported in  WikiProject Historical Place. This info is not necessarily historical in nature, but any experiences guiding the place name practices would be highly valuable. - If necessary, a generic place name project could be initiated.

Cheers
Susanna Ånäs

2016-11-24 13:20 GMT+02:00 Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad@gmail.com>:
Those interested in translations of world places, please give your feedback on this discussion [1]. There is a dataset of professionally translated list of world places [2] that has already been through a round of independent review by native language speakers and is open to be used to improve Wikidata.

331 places were translated into 8 languages. Of the 2,648 translations that were received, 1148 are new or differ from existing label translations, while 1508 match perfectly with existing labels.

From the discussion so far it seems like the next steps would be to get the translators to update the Wikidata entries from their own accounts with a paid contribution disclaimer as per [3]. The other option is to get community members in each language to once again do a review and update the corresponding labels. Any suggestions of which is the recommended way to go about this?

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SKVi9PZ_1ebxwWJAGshLQvkrJ5esOUwPHEkkj-LMr7w/edit#gid=1482753214
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure

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