Hi! Seems like a superb project! I see no reason why the import should be
carried out by a non-paid volunteer. Having it done by one person as
opposed to many will keep the the data quality consistent.
I would be happy if this experience would get logged / reported in WikiProject
Historical Place
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Historical_Place>. This
info is not necessarily historical in nature, but any experiences guiding
the place name practices would be highly valuable. - If necessary, a
generic place name project could be initiated.
Cheers
Susanna Ånäs
2016-11-24 13:20 GMT+02:00 Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad(a)gmail.com>om>:
Those interested in translations of world places,
please give your
feedback on this discussion [1]. There is a dataset of professionally
translated list of world places [2] that has already been through a round
of independent review by native language speakers and is open to be used to
improve Wikidata.
331 places were translated into 8 languages. Of the 2,648 translations
that were received, 1148 are new or differ from existing label
translations, while 1508 match perfectly with existing labels.
From the discussion so far it seems like the next steps would be to get
the translators to update the Wikidata entries from their own accounts with
a paid contribution disclaimer as per [3]. The other option is to get
community members in each language to once again do a review and update the
corresponding labels. Any suggestions of which is the recommended way to go
about this?
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#
Data_donation_of_translated_place_names
[2]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SKVi9PZ_
1ebxwWJAGshLQvkrJ5esOUwPHEkkj-LMr7w/edit#gid=1482753214
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure
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