I don't want to feel like //John Connor... hunted by a bot that comes after my edits and reverts them only because I entered 123.45 for a property that should be an integer.
Am Fr 22.11.2013 21:56, schrieb Denny Vrandečić: > It is either obvious that they should be entering only integers or > positive numbers, in which case such feedback isn't helpful, or it > might end up being too restrictive again. Who tells me that a system > like this won't get used in order to force cities to have a population > of an integer bigger than 10,000? > > I understand the wish and desire to restrict user input, but I would > like to remind everyone that Wikidata comes from the wiki side, which > adheres more to the 'let's gather input and then verify it' than the > 'let's make everyone give us correct input in the first place' side. > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Helder . <helder.w...@gmail.com > <mailto:helder.w...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Lukas Benedix > <bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de <mailto:bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de>> > wrote: > > The problem I see with this practice is that a user doesn't get > any feedback > > that he is entering 'invalid' values. > > +1 > > Helder > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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