Hi,

I had a discussion on sunday in the IRC about a related topic.

I was wondering where the HTML-title comes from. There is some language fallback mechanism. (I'm not sure where the title comes from, maybe from the labels only or the linked wikipedia articles.)

My suggestion is to take this title and paste it into the label input box. When a user goes to a site with no label in his language, he can see the "fallback title" and save it, if it is correct. I'm not talking about writing fallback labels into the db automatically, just make it easy for people to validate and save this fallback labels.

Instead of an allmost empty page like: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/k6cxo00uzl_2013-10-18_13.48.56.png

He would see something like: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/5j2n4e86ox_2013-10-18_13.50.25.png

One problem with this could be that only one thing (link or statement) can be edited at one time in wikidata right now. The other things should not be deactivated for the label fallback mechanism.

Another problem is, that a lot of Wikidata items have different names in different languages, but for persons this should work for > 90%.

Lukas

Am Fr 18.10.2013 07:41, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:

Hoi,

Is there a bot to add labels to Wikidata ?

It seems that the majority of the Wikidata items have only one label. To be useful, to be available to search, it is imperative that a label exists. The obvious value is the name of the Wikipedia article. It is better to have that as a label than no label..

Is there a bot that will populate Wikidata based on the existing interwiki links and, is it possible to have the name of a new article added as a label when a new Wikipedia article is added as an interwiki link?

Thanks,

     Gerard

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