Hoi,
When the information in Wikidata is to be useful, there have to be labels
for the items that are on display in Wikidata. In the Reasonator, the tool
that visualises the information from Wikidata, we always show you a label
in a language. It is possible to set your babel information to ensure fall
back for the best personal result.
What is really new and exciting is that you can now add the missing labels
from within the Reasonator. When you hover over the label that is "red
labelled", you will see an option to add a label. Click on it, add the
missing label, hit enter and you are done.
It now takes just ten seconds to add a label.
When you consider how often items are used, you will appreciate that 10
seconds may affect hundreds of thousands of items where that specific item
is used. As a consequence we now have the perfect setting where people can
make a big difference for their language. It will particularly make a
dramatic difference for the language where there are few articles in
Wikipedias. Even the English Wikipedia will benefit a lot; already there
are 500.000 more items in Wikidata than articles in the English Wikipedia..
Thanks to the Wikidata Search option we have found that we are better able
to share in the sum of the knowledge we have available. As more labels are
added, the quantity of the information will grow. As it is likely that
people will mostly work on the items they consider to be relevant, it is
almost certain that the effect will be great.
FYI at this time the number of page views of the Reasonator increases by
100% a month. I wonder how long this will be this way :)
Thanks,
GerardM
PS and NB It is really staggering how much functionality Magnus can come up
with in so little time.