Hi,
User:VIGNERON had the idea of a workshop at Wikimania to work on this problem: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2017#Transl-a-thon
Maybe we should do online sessions to regularly reduce the gap on labels and descriptions?
Envel
2017-02-19 17:00 GMT+01:00 Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com:
Hi all,
If you look in the recent changes, most items have labels in English and those are shown in the recent changes and elsewhere (so we know what the item is about without opening first). But not all items have labels, and these items without English label are often items with only a label in Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic script, Hebrew, etc. This forms a significant gap.
Is there a way to easily make a transcription from one language to another? Or alternatively if there is a database that has such transcriptions?
Also the other way round might be helpful for users of Wikidata that use/read it in Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic script, Hebrew, etc.
Thanks!
Romaine
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