Re: [Wikidata-l] changing wikidata-item properties with multilingual labels

2012-08-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Theoretically multitext could be replaced, but I would not like to do that. A property like Tagline for a movie or motto for a country might make sense to be a multitext. Yes, you could make the tagline of a movie an item -- but do we really want to require it to be an intermediary item? The

Re: [Wikidata-l] changing wikidata-item properties with multilingual labels

2012-08-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2012/8/17 Gregor Hagedorn g.m.haged...@gmail.com: Monotext is irreplaceable, though, and it means a simple string without a language designation. Something like Chemical symbol, I guess, would be a monotext, or ISO 3166 code. A intermediary item could not do the job in that case. I think

Re: [Wikidata-l] changing wikidata-item properties with multilingual labels

2012-08-17 Thread Gregor Hagedorn
You are right, I mixed them up (that comes from not checking). The usecase for monolingual text are a bit rare, and I am thinking of things like official motto (which is usually not translated), I think if it is only usually not, but sometimes indeed translated, using multilingual for the

[Wikidata-l] extension:oversight

2012-08-17 Thread jmcclure
THIS EXTENSION IS OBSOLETE! It has been replaced by core functionality in the MediaWiki software (which was added in version 1.16.0). [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight On 17.08.2012 06:50, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Hey folks :) Here is your fresh serving of

Re: [Wikidata-l] extension:oversight

2012-08-17 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:51 PM, jmccl...@hypergrove.com wrote: This extension is obsolete! It has been replaced by core functionality in the MediaWiki software (which was added in version 1.16.0). [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight What is your point? Oversight seems

Re: [Wikidata-l] extension:oversight

2012-08-17 Thread Katie Filbert
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:51 PM, jmccl...@hypergrove.com wrote: ** *This extension is obsolete!* It has been replaced by core functionality in the MediaWiki software (which was added in version 1.16.0). [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight The extension is still

[Wikidata-l] please remove me from this list...

2012-08-17 Thread Israel krul
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Re: [Wikidata-l] extension:oversight

2012-08-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
The idea of installing the extensions that are running on the Wikipedias on the client is to see if we encounter any weird interactions that shouldn't be there, i.e. it is some mild form of integration testing. Thus installing Oversight makes sense, as it runs on the Wikipedias. Cheers, Denny

Re: [Wikidata-l] please remove me from this list...

2012-08-17 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya, I will do this in a sec. In the future please send such requests to me and not the list or use the link at the bottom of every email to this list. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.