Hey everyone, After wikimania, I decided to contribute to wikipedia in my capacity. The first thing I did was to check out my home town in wiki data, which is Zara Turkey. I used the search box, and found that Zara is not listed there. So I used the option "containing Zara" which did help me find the right entry.

By the way, I see a tremendous impact of automatically generating descriptions, which is what was proposed by the gentlemen next to me in our outdoors meeting in wikimania. There were 4 Zara entries with no descriptions making it difficult for me to find the correct entry. In my opinion, I think manual descriptions should be kept, as opposed to be deleted completely. Instead, automatically generated descriptions should be provided when there is no manual description and people should be asked to override automatically generated descriptions. In other words, provide a default one and let people change it, if for some reason it is not good enough.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q147630 I realized that, it is labeled as "Zara, Turkey" and not Zara. This seem wrong to me, since "Turkey" part of this label is already in the data as a country relation. It appears to be a one-to-one mapping of the wikipedia article's title. Maybe when first imported from wikipedia, its title is used as is. I want to verify my understanding that labels of entities should be as short as possible and should not attempt to disambiguate as it has to be done in wikipedia article titles.

Hey everyone, After wikimania, I decided to contribute to wikipedia in my capacity. The first thing I did was to check out my home town in wiki data, which is Zara Turkey. I used the search box, and found that Zara is not listed there. So I used the option "containing Zara" which did help me find the right entry. By the way, I see a tremendous impact of automatically generating descriptions, which is what was proposed by the gentlemen next to me in our outdoors meeting in wikimania. There were 4 Zara entries with no descriptions making it difficult for me to find the correct entry. In my opinion, I think manual descriptions should be kept, as opposed to be deleted completely. Instead, automatically generated descriptions should be provided when there is no manual description and people should be asked to override automatically generated descriptions. In other words, provide a default one and let people change it, if for some reason it is not good enough. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q147630 I realized that, it is labeled as "Zara, Turkey" and not Zara. This seem wrong to me, since "Turkey" part of this label is already in the data as a country relation. It appears to be a one-to-one mapping of the wikipedia article's title. Maybe when first imported from wikipedia, its title is used as is. I want to verify my understanding that labels of entities should be as short as possible and should not attempt to disambiguate as it has to be done in wikipedia article titles. Thanks _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Yes, you are completely right with regards to the Label for Zara, Turkey. It should just be Zara, and the description probably "city in Turkey". Just go ahead and change it (if no one else did that already).