Wait, you're changing the discussion from 'the software should not allow
it' to 'there should be a popup telling you...'.
The latter can be implemented by the community as additional JavaScript (I
am not saying if this is a good idea. I am not a big fan of popups). The
former is what I strongly advise against.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Lukas Benedix
<benedix(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de>wrote;wrote:
Is it limiting your freedom, if a little popup comes
up and tells you
"maybe you should enter a positive integer here... if you insist on 123.45
press save, but the bots will come and revert your edit"
Like a speed limit that is not limiting your freedom to speed, but maybe
it reminds you to the consequences...
Am Fr 22.11.2013 22:52, schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
So instead better to limit your freedom to express yourself in the first
place.
I'd take the bot. At least in the history of the article it is recorded
that it was tried to enter 123.45 for a population, and we can later figure
out what was happening.
Why not wait and see if this is really a problem? I wonder how many such
mistakes will ever be entered, besides "jokes" and vandalism. And the
latter is easier to catch if we don't require the pranksters to use data
that sounds correct. Do we have any indication that contributors are being
supported by a system that doesn't let them enter negative numbers for
populations?
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Lukas Benedix <benedix(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de
wrote:
I don't want to feel like John Connor...
hunted by a bot that comes
after my edits and reverts them only because I entered 123.45 for a
property that should be an integer.
Am Fr 22.11.2013 21:56, schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
It is either obvious that they should be entering only integers or
positive numbers, in which case such feedback isn't helpful, or it might
end up being too restrictive again. Who tells me that a system like this
won't get used in order to force cities to have a population of an integer
bigger than 10,000?
I understand the wish and desire to restrict user input, but I would
like to remind everyone that Wikidata comes from the wiki side, which
adheres more to the 'let's gather input and then verify it' than the
'let's
make everyone give us correct input in the first place' side.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Helder . <helder.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Lukas Benedix
<benedix(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
The problem I see with this practice is that a
user doesn't get any
feedback
that he is entering 'invalid' values.
+1
Helder
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