On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
this is about the output format of numerical, money-type and date-type data.
This is also language dependent; for example in Hungarian decimal sign is a
comma rather then dot and the thousand separator is a space, not a comma.
(In computer environment preferably a non breaking space.) Will the
interface of Wikidata handle these national/local differences? I think this
would be much more efficient than let the recipient projects transform data
to their own format.
Yes.
Some Wikipedias use templates to translate miles to
kilometers and vice
versa. This translation often fails due to a format error and results in
funny values. (Example: a train station that is 31 km away from the town.
[1]) As Wikidata has controlled data, the conversion of measurment units
would be useful to solve locally, and serve data in the desired format. (A
mile expressed in kilometers is also a piece of data that can be stored, but
may perhaps need stronger protection as it has an effect on the outut of
many other data -- such as a highly used template is editable for admins
only.)
Cheers
Lydia
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