Thank you, Gerard. I have used the tool you alluded to as an end-user, changing display language from English, to Spanish, to Chinese traditional or to Chinese simplified.
But the <language> for describing an entity in Wikidata is on the data recording side. At the moment, <Chinese> (zh) appears to represent spoken and written Chinese. But the scripts are quite all over the map. I cannot figure out whether best practices. Will you mind pointing me to the guidelines if you are aware of one?
Thank you very much.
—Jackie
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 10:23:13 +0100 From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Guidelines for entering label in various languages, e.g. Chinese
Hoi, For Wikipedia we have a tool that provides to the reader the simplified or traditional representation based on the users preference. We could do that for Wikidata if we cared to. The same is true for Commons, its search engine works for any language based on the availability of Wikidata labels in other languages and we could serve more than half the world's population if we cared to. Thanks, GerardM
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 21:09, j s aa3544bd@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was alerted that there are many properties without a label in zh-Hant https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=-haslabel:zh-hant&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns120=1. When I reviewed the search result, I was surprised to see Chinese traditional (zh-Hant) and simplified scripts (zh-Hans) were both recorded under the lable Chinese (zh).
Does anyone know if there are guidelines for entering data under different language tags, subtags for script and region? Thank you for your help.
Jackie Shieh Descriptive Data Management Discovery Services Division
LibrariesArchives.si.edu library.si.edu
Hoi, There used to be a time when the WMF had a team dedicated to language technology. I know, I was part of it. Thanks, GerardM
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 15:18, j s aa3544bd@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, Gerard. I have used the tool you alluded to as an end-user, changing display language from English, to Spanish, to Chinese traditional or to Chinese simplified.
But the <language> for describing an entity in Wikidata is on the data recording side. At the moment, <Chinese> (zh) appears to represent spoken and written Chinese. But the scripts are quite all over the map. I cannot figure out whether best practices. Will you mind pointing me to the guidelines if you are aware of one?
Thank you very much.
—Jackie
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 10:23:13 +0100 From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Guidelines for entering label in various languages, e.g. Chinese
Hoi, For Wikipedia we have a tool that provides to the reader the simplified or traditional representation based on the users preference. We could do that for Wikidata if we cared to. The same is true for Commons, its search engine works for any language based on the availability of Wikidata labels in other languages and we could serve more than half the world's population if we cared to. Thanks, GerardM
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 21:09, j s aa3544bd@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was alerted that there are many properties without a label in zh-Hant https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=-haslabel:zh-hant&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns120=1 .
When I reviewed the search result, I was surprised to see Chinese traditional (zh-Hant) and simplified scripts (zh-Hans) were both recorded under the lable Chinese (zh).
Does anyone know if there are guidelines for entering data under different language tags, subtags for script and region? Thank you for your help.
Jackie Shieh Descriptive Data Management Discovery Services Division
LibrariesArchives.si.edu library.si.edu
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