Thanks, John, Erika, and Wikidatans,
As an experiment with Android voice on my smartphone, I just said to the
rectangular object in my hand: "Please add the languages of the United
Kingdom Wikipedia page to the info box for the United Kingdom Wikipedia
page" and at the top of the list on my smartphone arose this link -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_Kingdom - which is
cool, but no further digital actions occurred after this.
I'm excited for the time when Wikipedia info boxes will do this with both
voice and brain wave headsets, and wonder when this might occur (per this
Stanford Engineering Tweet of Jeff Dean -
https://twitter.com/StanfordEng/status/760571959402909697 - which I posted
here -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch - also on August 2nd).
Thank you.
Scott
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/08/rafetus-yangtze-giant-euphrates.h…
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Brill Lyle <wp.brilllyle(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes. Point taken John. Wow. Thank goodness I use
syntax highlighting
#love... but still: Yikes. Here's the link to the page if anyone wants to
dig around the madness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
I guess I see a difference between a casual editor wanting to update a
piece of data that can be Ctrl+F searched for among a mass of information
versus battling with P# Wikidata items amongst an endless sea of
chronological elements and curly brackets. But that's just me.
re: this proposal
I think Putnik has been very patient with my concerns and in trying to
answer questions. As have others. I really appreciate it.
I am not satisfied, and the majority of my concerns will not be addressed.
There do not seem to be solutions here that will make me happy. I will be
interested to see how this proposal progresses.
Best,
- Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:12 PM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I think its important to make a distinction
between what is easiest and
what people are used to. Perhaps thinking about what new users would find
easiest might be helpful.
Here is an example of a well developed infobox on English Wikipedia, I
think that the knowledge needed to edit this is an unreasonable barrier for
casual, new or even fairly experienced if less technical editors like
myself.
{{about|the country|its largest island|Great Britain|other uses|United
Kingdom (disambiguation)|and|UK (disambiguation)}}
{{pp-semi-indef}}
{{pp-move-indef}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox country
| name =
{{collapsible list
|titlestyle=background:transparent;font-size:9pt;
|title={{resize|11.5pt|{{nowrap|United Kingdom of Great}}
{{nowrap|Britain and Northern Ireland}}}}
|{{Infobox |subbox=yes |bodystyle=font-size:9pt;font-weight:normal;
|rowclass1=mergedrow |label1=[[Cornish language|Cornish]]:
|data1={{lang|kw|Rywvaneth Unys Breten Veur ha Kledhbarth Iwerdhon}}
|rowclass2 =mergedrow |label2=[[Irish language|Irish]]:
|data2={{lang|ga|Ríocht Aontaithe na Breataine Móire agus Thuaisceart
Éireann}}
|rowclass3=mergedrow |label3=[[Scots language|Scots]]:
|data3={{lang|sco|Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northren Ireland}}
|rowclass4=mergedrow |label4=[[Ulster Scots dialects|Ulster
Scots]]:|data4={{lang|sco-UKN|Claught Kängrick o Docht Brätain an Norlin
Airlann}}
|rowclass5=mergedrow |label5=[[Scottish Gaelic]]:
|data5={{lang|gd|Rìoghachd Aonaichte Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath}}
|rowclass6=mergedrow |label6=[[Welsh language|Welsh]]:
|data6={{lang|cy|Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon}}
}}
}}
| common_name = United Kingdom
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