On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote:
> Problem with that option is that on Wikipedia you cannot see what the
> label on Wikidata is. The Wikidata label may have been changed for
> another reason (in the Manning case, say, a different transcription
> from Latin to Cyrillic), and then a choice like this would force
> someone to decide which of two changes is the most important without
> seeing the other one.

Sort of related, there is a gadget on some WPs which displays a
summary of the Wikidata item underneath the WP article title.  I didnt
see any takeup for it on English Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#Wikidata_items_again

This would also help people *see* that the WD label needs updating.

--
John Vandenberg

_______________________________________________
Wikidata-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Reply via email to