Re: [Wikidata-l] i18n, l10n and m17n in Wikidata - lang and dir

2012-08-13 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hallo, It's my first email on this list, so in case you don't know me: I am Amir, I'm from Israel, I'm a wikipedian since 2004, I write mostly in Hebrew and English, I care strongly about language issues in

Re: [Wikidata-l] thoughts about a plan for enabling interlanguage linking

2012-08-13 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2012/8/13 Snaevar snaevar-w...@gmx.com: For example: * The interwiki bots' will definitely have to be modified for the Wikidata age. Did anybody start a conversation with the operators of these bots?

Re: [Wikidata-l] thoughts about a plan for enabling interlanguage linking

2012-08-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2012/8/13 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2012/8/13 Snaevar snaevar-w...@gmx.com: Is this http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MerlIwBot/WikiData what you are looking for? Well, probably.

Re: [Wikidata-l] i18n, l10n and m17n in Wikidata - lang and dir

2012-08-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi Amir, thanks for the bug report! We will go and implement it along the lines you suggest it. I have one question still, maybe you can help me: About 10% of the titles in the Hebrew Wikipedia are in latin alphabet (very rough estimate, may be completely off, based of a glance on

Re: [Wikidata-l] i18n, l10n and m17n in Wikidata - lang and dir

2012-08-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I'm not sure about the exact number either, but in general it is true. There is a bug about this already reported in Wikidata: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36635 I can't think of any good way to fix it except fixing bug 28970 in core MediaWiki: to allow setting the language of a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Phase II UI concept

2012-08-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi Tgr, thank you for the input! 2012/8/12 Tgr gti...@gmail.com: These mockups seem focused on displaying data, with very little focus on search/organization (there is only a reliability filter in the mockups and a text search in some of them). If Wikidata is intended only as an infobox

Re: [Wikidata-l] i18n, l10n and m17n in Wikidata - lang and dir

2012-08-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thanks for clarifying! 2012/8/13 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: I'm not sure about the exact number either, but in general it is true. There is a bug about this already reported in Wikidata: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36635 I can't think of any good way to

[Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo, Preamble 1: This email probably falls under this FAQ question: Q: How will Wikidata change the way articles are edited? A: That’s part of what we have to figure out during the development, together with the community. Preamble 2: It's possible that there's an answer to this issue already,