On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
>
> I do not know if you have seen the statistics compiled by Magnus [1]. They
> are up to date and useful.
>
> I blogged about it [2]. As far as I am concerned, the biggest challenge we
> face is the lack of labels. Given that 280+ languages are represented in
> Wikidata it clearly demonstrates that Wikidata is useless as it is for most
> languages. Please tell me that I am wrong and explain why.

This is correct to a certain degree. However we have language
fallbacks on the roadmap which will significantly help improve the
situation. Liangent has put a lot of effort into this over the summer
during Google Summer of Code. The other thing is that there is clearly
a number of items which are more used than others. My theory is that
they are also the ones that are more complete. If there is no label in
a small language for a very obscure item than this is less bad as when
there is none for a much-used item. Not all items are created equal.
We should keep that in mind when interpreting statistics.


Cheers
Lydia

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