Lydia thanks! (because I couldn't understand what this thread was complaining about)
What I would like to have short term is some sort of a gadget that I can run periodically that will tell me when I personally have created an item with a label that is the same for at least one other item in one other language in the database (trying to repair my own doubles here) Jane
2014-05-05 12:15 GMT+02:00, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de:
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, What I don't understand is the need to keep all labels blank until they are updated by hand. Especially for biographical articles, it would be nice to have original spellings of the person's name, even if it's Chinese or something else really far away from English. That might serve as a prompt to people to update the label more than blank, no? Take a look at this person: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11287651
That's exactly why we need language fallback, yes.
There are so many variants in spelling of the name, but I consider them all correct, depending on the source. In the case of historical people, can't a bot go through and update the labels so that queries will return something? Anything is better than blank, I think.
That's already happening. It just takes time.
Cheers Lydia
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