Hoi,
First things first ... that is getting Wikidata to work for its initial
purposes. Automated updates from elsewhere are nice but introduce a
complete new set of issues including reliability.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 9 April 2012 03:25, JFC Morfin jef...@jefsey.com wrote:
Is there an objection
Hoi,
The Wikidata project is probably the software used by OmegaWiki, the
original Wikidata.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 14 April 2012 16:12, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Wikidata
WikidataClient
WikidataRepo
Although the project is called WikiData, the software is called
Hoi,
Have a look at OmegaWiki.. It is the grand daddy of such projects and it is
what Wikidata can aspire to.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 8 May 2012 21:38, Sébastien Druon druon.sebast...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello!
Are their also wikidata efforts to give structure to wiktionaries?
Do someone have
, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
There are several points WHY a centrally administered info box makes
sense. The most important one can be found in what the Wikimedia Foundation
aims to achieve: Imagine a world in which every single human being can
freely share in the sum of all knowledge [1
Hoi,
Technically there is nothing stopping Wikidata from hosting multiple
infoboxes on the same subject. The big thing about such infoboxes is that
their layout is the same for all subjects in the same category. This does
not mean that every one looks the same but it does mean they follow a
Hoi,
It being a database you will find that someone in Germany will take care of
a new mayor in German places and determines for every wiki using the same
instance of that person and consequently such relations are implicitly
available. When people choose NOT to use the benefits of a database, on
Hoi,
It probably is another bug ... *Bug
42064*https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42064
- Make AbuseFilter aware of Wikibase content models. is not applicable
Thanks,
Gerard
On 16 November 2012 12:07, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.dewrote:
Heya folks,
We
Hoi,
Expanding to the full name of a language eh, do I speak Dutch,
Niederlandisch or Nederlands ? And when I speak all those languages, how do
I get all the different names for the language that I recognise as my
mother tongue ?
Thanks,
Gerard
On 10 January 2013 13:06,
Hoi,
Several years ago there was a working prototype developed to do exactly
that. It is lexical in nature and it did include the interwiki links.
It should not be that hard to build upon Wikidata to achieve something
similar... It is called omegawiki.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 January 2013
Hoi,
The one thing that is necessary is to have translations for the category.
When an image uses a particular category it shows the translations conform
a setting somewhere.. Having the files and their descriptions is a lot more
complicated. Just consider, people select an image by its looks..
Hoi,
When Commons started, you could not use pictures from Commons on any Wiki.
There are advantages to provide functionality once it is available. It
allow for it to grow into its own being. When you provide functionality all
in one go, it will take much longer to get anything at all and there
Hoi,
If there is one thing that would be extremely powerful, it would be
combining lexical information with Commons. I presented about this in
Alexandria at Wikimania and, it is still true. It makes sense to allow
people to search for a paard or a cheval or a
Hoi,
There is no point at all in maintaining the software currently used by
OmegaWiki. That would be foolish. Nobody who knows OmegaWiki will ask for
that.
What we are asking for is that we ensure that the structures that exist in
OmegaWiki are replicated in Wikidata for reasons that are clear
Hoi,
The qualifiers, would that be something like ... if the language is
English, the string can be a noun, a verb, an adjective
When the sting is a Dutch noun, it can be masculine, feminine or neuter ??
When a qualifier allows for such constructs, we are halfway there to
implementing a
Typically when you want to do this, you are working on info-boxes. The
assumption should be that those info boxes are the same for a certain
category of subjects (eg all the emirs of Cordoba).
An Emir of Cordoba belongs to Noble family Emirate of Cordoba and many
of the associated fields could be
Hoi,
Where can I read about the DBpedia Wikidata project ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 27 May 2013 23:40, Hady elsahar hadyelsa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All ,
i'm Hady , i'll be working on the project DBpedia + WikiData , i'm very
excited to start !! :)
indeed it would be an awesome summer
Hoi,
I have been thinking about requirements like any assertion must be sourced.
I think they will kill much of the embryonic community Wikidata has.
When people of any Wikipedia want to make sure that the data of Wikidata
contains sources to assertions, they are welcome to add them. Requiring
it is a good idea to replicate what they
do.
Cheers,
Micru
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi,
I have been thinking about requirements like any assertion must be
sourced. I think they will kill much of the embryonic community Wikidata
is
not sourced.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
In my opinion is Wikidata a collection of assertions. By providing
sources respectability is provided to assertions it does however not
provide certainty to what is asserted and consequently
Hoi,
Denny, when you look at the data currently in Wikidata, you find what is in
essence more than a basis for a translation dictionary.
The notion that we need something separate is a notion you should reasses.
What we need is some clean-up of the labels currently in use. What we also
need are
Hoi,
The reason why it is NOT good enough and what you fail to understand is
that this is NOT an attribute that we should morph into something else. Its
name makes it clear: main type (GND) this implies that the definition and
its values are external to Wikidata; they are the definition as per the
Hoi Michael,
The one thing that makes it easy for you is that you speak English. For
other languages there are not the same amount and diversity of resources.
While I have my reservations about the feasibility of what Scott proposes,
his proposal is for all the Wikipedia languages and then some.
Hoi Saskia,
You will have a good time comparing all the apples and oranges. If you care
for more information about OmegaWiki and why we think it is possible to
include this project in Wikidata you may find the arguments are great. If
you do not, please contact me or Kipcool.
Thanks,
Gerard
Hoi,
Would be interested but I am not there ... As are many other people ...
Thanks,
GerardM
On 9 August 2013 06:43, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
wiktionar...@lists.wikimedia.orgHi,
If there is someone in Wikimania interested in participating in the talks
about the future support
Hoi,
There is a lot of data that already fits perfectly well in Wikidata.
There is one thing that should become absolutely clear. Wikidata is a
project in its own right and Wikipedia is only linked through its
interwiki links. The relevance is that there will be an increasing number
of Wikidata
Hoi,
When an item is a member of a list, the item is likely to be written
differently dependent on the language and script. When there is a
free-text referral, it loses its flexibility ... eg 靈高史達 is a member of
the Beatles grin obviously /grin
Thanks,
Gerard
On 12 August 2013 11:44,
Hoi,
As far as I am concerned, the categories used for images are not really
helpful , While there are many images about Kiribati, you find only a few
in the category by that name. The rest can be found in subcategories.
In the proposal for Commons there is a provision for tags. These tags can
Hoi,
If anything Wikidata has replaced the interwiki links for both Wikipedia
and Wikivoyage. Wikidata DOES allow links to images on Commons and Commons
categories already. In Commons it is known where images are used.
There is no way in which it is wise to abandon all that.
Once Wikidata
Hoi,
I have been blogging a lot the last two days with DBpedia in mind. My
understanding is that at DBpedia a lot of effort went into making something
of a cohesive model of properties. Now that the main type GND is about to
be deleted, it makes sense to adopt much of the work that has been done
, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been blogging a lot the last two days with DBpedia in mind. My
understanding is that at DBpedia a lot of effort went into making something
of a cohesive model
]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2013-August/000189.html
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:18 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I will answer with questions with more questions...
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi
at the
same time /grin
Thanks,
GerardM
On 26 August 2013 15:27, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote:
On 8/26/13 4:34 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
Two things to consider; the Wikipedia community and the Wikidata community
are two separate entities. As far as I am concerned
Hoi,
is this a course that you have to follow at a prescribed time ? I do not
find any such information..
Thanks,
Gerard
2013/9/2 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de
Heya folks :)
Today a course on Coursera started that might be interesting to some
of you:
Hoi,
When you read about upper ontologies, it says that the answer is highly
political. We have already suffered the pain of using the DNB library
system. For all our items with a GND identifier we can lookup what the
main type (GND) is. We have identifiers to many external sources and for
all
experience in so many places.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 26 August 2013 17:36, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote:
On 8/26/13 10:44 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
I do know how much the DBpedia people want to reach out and connect in
any positive way with both Wikipedia and Wikidata.
I have
Hoi,
I am happy that Lydia answered some questions ... I hope you will enjoy
them as much as I did.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/10/10-wikidata-questions-for-lydia.html
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Hoi,
The new blog post about VIAF is really interesting.. It has many
implications so please, as far as I am concerned this is a must read..
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8964
Thanks,
Gerard
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Tom,
On the Occitan Wikipedia they indicate the VIAF (and other) identifiers are
shown from Wikidata. When a new identifier is added, this new identifier
will be shown as well. When it is changed it is changed as well.
When information in both Wikidata and Wikipedia is the same, it would be
good
16, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Tom,
On the Occitan Wikipedia they indicate the VIAF (and other) identifiers
are shown from Wikidata. When a new identifier is added, this new
identifier will be shown as well. When it is changed it is changed as well
Hoi,
I do not know if you have seen the statistics compiled by Magnus [1]. They
are up to date and useful.
I blogged about it [2]. As far as I am concerned, the biggest challenge we
face is the lack of labels. Given that 280+ languages are represented in
Wikidata it clearly demonstrates that
Hoi,
Is there a bot to add labels to Wikidata ?
It seems that the majority of the Wikidata items have only one label. To be
useful, to be available to search, it is imperative that a label exists.
The obvious value is the name of the Wikipedia article. It is better to
have that as a label than
/wikdata-needs-378000-labels.html
On 18 October 2013 22:27, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.dewrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
I do not know if you have seen the statistics compiled by Magnus [1].
They
are up
://lukas.benedix.de/wikidata/stats/
Lukas
Am Fr 18.10.2013 07:26, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
I do not know if you have seen the statistics compiled by Magnus [1].
They are up to date and useful.
I blogged about it [2]. As far as I am concerned, the biggest challenge
we face is the lack
Hoi,
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/10/wikidata-hip-hip-hurray.html
Thanks,
GerardM
On 29 October 2013 00:59, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.dewrote:
Heya everyone!
Today is Wikidata's first birthday. One year ago Q1 was created. This
is time for a lot of
Hoi,
The head of state is defined on the state involved.. the head of state is
... the prime minister of Japan.
When Mr Abe is the current prime minister, you add office held Prime
minister of Japan on his item and you can embelish it with the start date,
the predecessor. For previous prime
Hoi,
It is very similar in content as the Commons Creator and Institution
namespaces
Thanks,
Gerard
On 2 November 2013 16:30, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.dewrote:
Hey everyone,
The next sister project to get language links via Wikidata is
Wikisource. We're currently
Hoi,
The good news is that the interwiki tangles are a big improvement over what
we had. Now there is clarity when an interwiki is wrong. There is one place
where to solve it and when solved, it is solved for all linked Wikipedias.
The problem I have with all the ontology issues is that they are
Hoi,
This makes perfect sense because Wikidata WANTS to use this information as
the source for statements.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 November 2013 02:12, billinghurst billinghu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 17:27:02 +0100, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com
wrote:
About this:
Hoi,
Wikidata supports many more items than any Wikipedia has articles and as
our objective is to share in the sum of all knowledge, it is obvious that
Wikidata has added value.
Thanks to the latest hack by Magnus, it is now possible to include Wikidata
in your search result. I blogged about
Hoi
Remember that the stings need to be identifief for their language and by
implication script. They can be a mix and match from multiple languages..
Thanks,
GerardM
Op 8 nov. 2013 09:13 schreef Liangent liang...@gmail.com:
Hello,
I submitted bug 56763[1] just now, then realized that
Hoi,
If I understand you well, what you propose is adding links that are
similar to what we already do to VIAF and so many others. Using data from
Freebase is a tantalising option. Is there agreement and a license that
allows for this?
Thanks,
GerardM
Op 11 nov. 2013 19:35 schreef Denny
a 'languages' tab to the user settings. That is
where users expect to set their UI preferences.
Let us tick boxes for as many 'additional languages' as we want.
On 12 Nov 2013 11:05, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
At this moment, it seems like a secret that you need to add
Hoi,
Wikidata is patient. It can hold a lot of data. We hold more references to
external that we objectively need to.
We can include these sources and they are intended as snippets of text that
identify what people sound like. That is enough in my opinion. It does
provided something extra.We also
Hoi,
When you like a reasonator guitar, you will like what the Reasonator has to
say about it [1]..
Thanks,
GerardM
[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q1051615
On 21 November 2013 00:49, Jonathan Morgan jmor...@wikimedia.org wrote:
For those who love both beautiful instruments
Hoi,
At this time the Reasonator has specific functionality for people,
organisms and places.there are many ways it can be improved. It can even
become a layer on top of Wikidata with proper caching and all the works
that make it perform for the world. Currently it runs on the toolserver..
The
2013 12:59, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
At this time the Reasonator has specific functionality for people,
organisms and places.there are many ways it can be improved. It can even
become a layer on top of Wikidata with proper caching and all the works
that make
Hoi,
Please understand that providing functionality like query is something that
has to fit into a continuously live environment. This is an environment
where the Wikidata functionality is used all the time and where some of the
underlying functionality is changed as well. The Wikidata development
Hoi,
FYI Omegawiki.org was originally used for bio-informatics. It included many
things that Wikidata does not support yet. The people behind it still
exist, they published about it. They might be still interested if support
for science fact and micro-publications is something that we would
Hoi Maria,
At the time I promised you to write something about how you can search for
images in languages like Guarani. I finally do but many things have changed
for the better making it so much easier.
What has changed is that we can now provide different functionalities as a
result of a
Hoi,
I am looking for people who are willing to spend 2 hours adding labels to
wikidata in the languages of India and, in their own language. For several
languages it will be possible to add 1% more labels in that time.
Typically every Wikipedia article has a link to Wikidata. What I want to
Hoi,
The number of data sources is something that grows all the time. The list
can be found here [1]. Search for VIAF for instance and you will find them
all together.
I blogged about the connectivity of Wikidata recently [2]. I would love to
know more of how you want to approach the many
Hoi,
I agree that the integration of Wikidata in all the different Wikipedias,
Wikivoyages, Wikisources, Wiktionaries and Commons is the most important
objective. It is so important because this ensures that the data will be
actually used.
We are doing fine I think. However, not all the quirks of
Hoi,
For your amusement, I was working on a blogpost of my own as a result of
what I read.. You may get it in a feed reader or alternatively you can read
it here [1]
Thanks,
Gerard
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikidata-weekly-summary-94.html
On 25 January 2014 16:53,
Hoi,
I do agree with Amir. It would be convenient to receive the updates in my
feed reader.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 28 January 2014 07:39, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
These updates look a lot like
Hoi,
I have been to the DBpedia conference in Amsterdam. They want to work with
us in making the data in both DBpedia and Wikidata as good as we can make
it.
I have written an RFC [2] where I ask for comments on a proposed process
for both the identification of differences between the
Hoi,
Have fun and, make a difference :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 February 2014 16:07, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.dewrote:
Hey everyone :)
I'm really happy to let you know that we have another addition to
Wikimedia Germany's software development department. Thiemo is a
Hoi,
We have often had discussions about generating texts to be used in
Wikipedia articles. The drawback of articles that are generated in this way
is that they do not get updated as more information becomes available.
The data in Wikidata is comparable with the kind of data often used in such
Hoi,
When the information in Wikidata is to be useful, there have to be labels
for the items that are on display in Wikidata. In the Reasonator, the tool
that visualises the information from Wikidata, we always show you a label
in a language. It is possible to set your babel information to ensure
Hoi,
Every Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource and Commons article has an
indicator that there is a Wikidata item associated with it already. It is
part of the tools in the sidebar.
Or are you talking about web pages external to the WMF?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 26 February 2014 14:20, Andy
Hoi,
I do need to include the URL
http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q2874
On 4 March 2014 15:04, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
The Reasonator will also show you this information [1]. What Reasonator
does is show the information that exists in Wikidata's data
Hoi,
The Reasonator will also show you this information [1]. What Reasonator
does is show the information that exists in Wikidata's data.
Thanks,
GerardM
NB given the current problems with backups and replication it may be that
the data does not show within 10 minutes.. I hope these issues
2014 17:07, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 06.03.2014 16:27, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
I hope this will be revisited. Many items change there name and
dependent on a
date they or it are called differently.
If the name is something that is changed, debated
. It is
arguably wrong.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 March 2014 17:15, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 06.03.2014 17:12, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
So how do I indicate that up to a particular date Jakarta was called
Batavia ?
Muhammed Ali was called Cassius Clay
Hoi,
What the RFC is about is actually quite simple. It states that the content
of most of the lists and categories can be expressed as queries. So when an
item is an instance of Wikimedia list article or Wikimedia category
page it can be complemented by an is a list of property. For examples,
[1]
from when to when they were used. Queries can then
some day use this information and display it within the context of a
specific query. But that is not what Wikidata labels are there for.
I hope that makes sense.
On Fri Mar 07 2014 at 12:01:32 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
Hoi,
You have it backwards, in my opinion at least. When someone is notable
enough for a Wikipedia article, create a Wikidata item and include all the
pertinent information for that person. You may even be surprised in finding
that the person already exists. There are many people from the USA or
Omegawiki.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1] A defective https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/defective or
inadequatehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inadequateitem.
On 10 March 2014 14:03, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote
Hoi,
If you have not done so, it is well worth a read. It has details that I
have seen for the first time.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 11 March 2014 18:42, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.orgwrote:
Dear all,
Denny and I are happy to report that our first general overview article on
Hoi,
In my opinion the notability rules for Wikidata need to change. I have
created an RFC to reflect this [1].
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Notability_%26_early_creation_of_Wikidata_items
On 11 March 2014 12:36, Joe Filceolaire
Hoi,
Hopefully next week some time .. There is a bug for it ...
Thanks,
GerardM
On 13 March 2014 17:40, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.orgwrote:
On 13/03/14 17:14, Katie Filbert wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Markus Krötzsch
mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org
Hoi,
In the latest iteration of the Reasonator, you will find the option to
see what items exist in a radius of 15 km around the current item.
Obviously, you will find only those items that have a geo-coordinate. There
are however many of them :) They are everything from cities to amusement
parks
Hoi,
Next month I will be presenting a half a day meeting in the Netherlands for
a big GLAM partner. This presentation will likely be repeated for other
GLAMs in the Netherlands at a later date.
I have a tentative program for half a day. I will present about Wikidata, I
will show information that
Hoi,
I would seriously consider this for two reasons. Yes, we can include this
kind of information, obviously. It is worthwhile information so that is one.
The most important reason why I want to seriously have this information is
because the audience we gain. It is the developers of MediaWiki.
Hoi,
It is in the planning that Wikidata will use its engine for Wikimedia
Commons. We are talking about the media files that is currently only
20,503,455 freely usable media files. The model that is considered is one
where two Wikidata databases will be used. One for the meta data of the
imagery
Given that we want to collaborate with openstreetmap we could host it for
them
Thanks
GerardM
Op 20 mrt. 2014 11:53 schreef David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
A similar thing can be considered for streets
is maintained at:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-analysis/map/map.html
Thanks,
Micru
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
In the latest iteration of the Reasonator, you will find the option to
see what items exist in a radius of 15 km around
Hoi,
Luca I love it. As far as I am aware, this is the first Wikidata project
outside of WMF. Chapeau !!
I had a look. I saw that you had translations. Would it make sense to have
the original text in old Greek and Latin? Would it make sense to show these
texts with fonts that represent the way
Hoi Max,
Is it possible to compare your index with the items in Wikidata. There are
several things that I would like to do
* add all coordinates to Wikidata items
* report on all coordinates where what you know differs from Wikidata
A next obvious question is how can we keep the two data sets in
Hoi,
What is the relevance of these tools when you have to have specialised
environments to use them ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 9 April 2014 10:41, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 08.04.2014 23:34, schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
I was trying to use this, but my Java is a bit
Hoi,
Given that the issue is not with the multitude of changes, is there a
problem with using bots and Widar as usual..
FYI the changes are happily arriving at Reasonator :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On 16 April 2014 17:23, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.dewrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014
Hoi,
I am really pleased with more attention for Wikidata.. When and where I can
help / collaborate I will.. Of particular importance is the need to explain
Wikidata.. Really credible Wikimedians find Wikidata hard, too hard to
invest their time.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 28 April 2014 23:56,
Hoi,
When Wikipedia has an approach to specific articles that are not compatible
with Wikidata, we can create items that fit our need and keep the original
item for what it is .. for instance a list of people (in the case of the
Wright brothers).
The notion that Wikidata defers to Wikipedia is
Hoi,
The question is much bigger than British English. If you language is Hindi,
Odia or Malayalam you will find that many labels are just not available.
The one reason why Reasonator is so important is that it does provide
language fall back.
Language fallback is not a luxury like it is for
Hoi,
When you see a label in Reasonator, you will find that when it is not in
*YOUR* language, it is underlined in red. You can hover over a label and
you will be prompted to add a label in the named language. ONLY your
language. Wikidata being Wikidata can provide the option as it already does
to
that are absolutely useless in most languages.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 May 2014 10:19, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 04.05.2014 22:50, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
When you see a label in Reasonator, you will find that when it is not in
*YOUR*
language, it is underlined in red
Hoi,
When the other languages box needs to become more flexible, it is a
different problem that has nothing to do with the ability to understand
what statements are made. At this time it is an absolute inability when
there is no label in *YOUR* language.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 May 2014 10:21,
Hoi,
I am talking about statements.. I am not asking for selecting items that
have no label in a language.. This would only work if auto descriptions are
in use.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 May 2014 12:52, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 05.05.2014 10:57, schrieb Gerard
of Wikidata, as
well as fallback for other languages such as Hindi, Odia or Malayalam.
Cheers,
Scott
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi,
I am talking about statements.. I am not asking for selecting items that
have no label
Hoi,
Purodha what you say about Ethnologue is very biases, wrong and often
hardly relevant. When you know your history, Ethnologue was asked if they
would bring in their expertise and system in the ISO processes because the
existing ISO-639-2 was extremely inadequate. When it was included, it
Hoi,
In the Netherlands it used to be that people were baptised as soon as
possible after birth. The notion that he must have been born a few days
earlier is not necessarily correct.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 May 2014 17:18, Joe Filceolaire filceola...@gmail.com wrote:
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