Not a contribution to the discussion at large, but I had the same problem Andreas is mentioning a couple of days ago when doing some of my first WD edits and adding a reference. I had no idea what to chose in that property field and it only showed me “instance of” and “subclass of” as a cold start. (I guess your average new editor might even wonder why to enter a property at all there - they would probably expect a single field to enter the source.) So I just went to some other items and checked how it was done there, which is not optimal. A pre-selection of relevant properties (maybe most used in other items?) in the type-ahead would be nice. And maybe a small explanation of what the property for references means (something like “specifies type of reference” ?). I was also unsure if and when to ever use “imported from” in that field (i.e., if I got the fact from a Wikipedia page, but no primary source exists) or if that was reserved for machine imports.
Fabian > Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:59:58 +0000 > From: Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com <mailto:jayen...@gmail.com>> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > <mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues >> > Just try it, Lydia. Click "add" in subsidiaries in > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37156 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37156> > -- enter a company name, and then > click "add reference". When I do that, the text field contains a greyed-out > "property", and the drop-down shows the unhelpful items I mentioned above. > > And it would be good if the help text actually *asked* people to cite a > reference. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
