Lydia thanks! (because I couldn't understand what this thread was complaining about)
What I would like to have short term is some sort of a gadget that I can run periodically that will tell me when I personally have created an item with a label that is the same for at least one other item in one other language in the database (trying to repair my own doubles here) Jane 2014-05-05 12:15 GMT+02:00, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
