Re: [Wikidata-l] quantities datatype available for testing

2013-11-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 22.11.2013 11:37, schrieb Lukas Benedix: A few points: * Population should not be negative, would be nice if you can define a min or max value in the property User-defined constraints are a pretty big and complex issue. I agree that it would be nice, but it's something to be carefully

Re: [Wikidata-l] quantities datatype available for testing

2013-11-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 25.11.2013 06:45, schrieb Daniel A. R. Werner: I can see two solutions to have this implemented: -A: Gadgets with hard coded property specific rules. Very Wikidata specific solution. Eek. -B: A generic constraint definition system for properties. No Wikidata specific JavaScript

Re: [Wikidata-l] quantities datatype available for testing

2013-11-25 Thread Joe Filceolaire
As long as it is possible to override it. There are all kinds of strange corner cases that we need to accommodate. For instance in elections to the Senate of the Republic of Ireland ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann the votes are calculated to 3 decimal places! On Mon, Nov

Re: [Wikidata-l] quantities datatype available for testing

2013-11-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 25.11.2013 13:51, schrieb Joe Filceolaire: As long as it is possible to override it. There are all kinds of strange corner cases that we need to accommodate. For instance in elections to the Senate of the Republic of Ireland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann the votes are

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Design] Reasonator

2013-11-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 11/21/2013 06:41 AM, Thomas Douillard wrote: * Edit capabilities : there is one or two messages on Wikidata starting to ask what property should I use, I personnaly would very happy to answer them install the

Re: [Wikidata-l] quantities datatype available for testing

2013-11-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Denny Vrandečić vrande...@gmail.com wrote: So instead better to limit your freedom to express yourself in the first place. I'd take the bot. At least in the history of the article it is recorded that it was tried to enter 123.45 for a population, and we can

Re: [Wikidata-l] quantities datatype available for testing

2013-11-25 Thread Lukas Benedix
What are the plans to improve the user experience? Especially for fields where the input type is checked somehow. Error messages a la An error occurred while trying to perform save and because of this, your changes could not be completed. don't really help when I try to enter a URL to a property

Re: [Wikidata-l] quantities datatype available for testing

2013-11-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: What are the plans to improve the user experience? Especially for fields where the input type is checked somehow. Error messages a la An error occurred while trying to perform save and because of this, your

[Wikidata-l] How are queries doing?

2013-11-25 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi, so how things are going? Anything for testing already? ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Re: [Wikidata-l] quantities datatype available for testing

2013-11-25 Thread Thomas Douillard
The plan is to improve them ;-) Sorry I don't know what kind of reply you are looking for. Help on the coding side welcome. If you're looking for a how answer, maybe the message should say what exactly is expected as input (correct input expected do not count :).