On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > What I don't understand is the need to keep all labels blank until > they are updated by hand. Especially for biographical articles, it > would be nice to have original spellings of the person's name, even if > it's Chinese or something else really far away from English. That > might serve as a prompt to people to update the label more than blank, > no? Take a look at this person: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11287651
That's exactly why we need language fallback, yes. > There are so many variants in spelling of the name, but I consider > them all correct, depending on the source. In the case of historical > people, can't a bot go through and update the labels so that queries > will return something? Anything is better than blank, I think. That's already happening. It just takes time. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
