Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

2015-05-02 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 02.05.2015 um 11:32 schrieb Thomas Douillard: Yes, that's what they are for, but wikidata is far from beeing complete, and if there is no label in your language, showing next to the original name a transliteration in your language could prove useful. I can very well imagine situations

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

2015-05-02 Thread Thomas Douillard
Yes, that's what they are for, but wikidata is far from beeing complete, and if there is no label in your language, showing next to the original name a transliteration in your language could prove useful. I can very well imagine situations where it is unclear on how to say a Chinese name, for

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

2015-05-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When the point is to express how an official name is to be pronounced, IPA is in order not a text in another script. Thanks, GerardM On 1 May 2015 at 11:04, Bene* benestar.wikime...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, this is what the monolingual text datatype is for. The labels however are

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

2015-05-02 Thread Thomas Douillard
I'll all with you, on this, unfortunately only a few people reads IPA currently :(. I don't, for example. 2015-05-02 15:19 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, When the point is to express how an official name is to be pronounced, IPA is in order not a text in another

Re: [Wikidata-l] Auto-transliteration of names of humans

2015-05-02 Thread Thomas Douillard
I think it would be nice if the *official name* property could have a special treatment in the UI. Something like the way you plan to sort out ids out of the rest of the statements :) But I have no idea. It's an important things, the name the local people gives to a place or a thing, it may be on

Re: [Wikidata-l] Number of planets in the solar system

2015-05-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It strikes me as another example of a search for perfection where we do not even cater for what is good. Our priorities should be with what is common and present it well not with a game of trivia that upset showing what is good and common. Thanks, GerardM On 30 April 2015 at 18:33, Paul