Indeed in many cases a translation is needed, but for some languages and specific types of entities what is needed is just a transcription if not just a copy from the original language. For example names of humans or settlements. I guess for some languages with the same script, one can just copy the label, f.e. for a british person from en to fr.

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2017-02-19 18:16 GMT+02:00 Smolenski Nikola <smolensk@eunet.rs>:

Citiranje Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki@gmail.com>:
> If you look in the recent changes, most items have labels in English and
> those are shown in the recent changes and elsewhere (so we know what the
> item is about without opening first). But not all items have labels, and
> these items without English label are often items with only a label in
> Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic script, Hebrew, etc. This forms a significant gap.
>
> Is there a way to easily make a transcription from one language to another?
> Or alternatively if there is a database that has such transcriptions?

There is in many cases, however there are some problems associated with it. You
may not know what is the original language to transcribe from, you might need a
translation rather than transcription, if there are multiple labels you have no
way to choose between them.



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