Wait, you're changing the discussion from 'the software should not allow it' to 'there should be a popup telling you...'.
The latter can be implemented by the community as additional JavaScript (I am not saying if this is a good idea. I am not a big fan of popups). The former is what I strongly advise against. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Lukas Benedix <bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de>wrote: > Is it limiting your freedom, if a little popup comes up and tells you > "maybe you should enter a positive integer here... if you insist on 123.45 > press save, but the bots will come and revert your edit" > > Like a speed limit that is not limiting your freedom to speed, but maybe > it reminds you to the consequences... > > > Am Fr 22.11.2013 22:52, schrieb Denny Vrandečić: > > 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 later figure > out what was happening. > > Why not wait and see if this is really a problem? I wonder how many such > mistakes will ever be entered, besides "jokes" and vandalism. And the > latter is easier to catch if we don't require the pranksters to use data > that sounds correct. Do we have any indication that contributors are being > supported by a system that doesn't let them enter negative numbers for > populations? > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Lukas Benedix <bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de > > wrote: > >> 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> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Lukas Benedix >>> <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 >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing >> listWikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing > listWikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://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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