Seems like a must read for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names :)
2015-09-18 16:09 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>: > Given the recent discussions on how to deal with person names in Wikidata > (e.g. how many properties to use, how to handle scripts, automatic vs. > manual labels/aliases/descriptions...) and the importance username display > has in MediaWiki (e.g. gendered namespaces, log system restructure since > 1.19, ...), it may be useful for someone to read this thesis and summarise > it to our benefit. :) > > http://ulir.ul.ie/handle/10344/3450 > > «If a system does not possess the ability to capture, store, and retrieve > people names, according to their cultural requirements, it is less likely > to be acceptable on the international market. Internationalisation of > people names could reduce the probability of a person’s name being lost in > a system, avoiding frustration, saving time, and possibly money. This study > attempts to determine the extent to which the human name can be > internationalised, based upon published anthroponymic data for 148 locales, > by categorising them into eleven distinctly autonomous parts: definite > article, common title, honorific title, nickname, by-name, particle, > forename, patronymic or matronymic, surname, community name, and > generational marker. This paper provides an evaluation of the effectiveness > of internationalising people names; examining the challenges of terminology > conflicts, the impact of subjectivity whilst pigeonholing personyms, and > the consequences of decisions made. It has demonstrated that the cultural > variety of human names can be expressed with the Locale Data Mark-up > Language for 74% of the world’s countries. This study, which spans 1,919 > anthroponymic syntactic structures, has also established, through the use > of a unique form of encoding, that the extent to which the human name can > be internationalised is 96.31% of the data published by Plassard (1996) and > Interpol (2006). Software developers, localisation engineers, and database > administrators may benefit from this paper, through recognition of this > problem and understanding the potential gains from accurately handling > people names within a system. The outcome of this study opens up > opportunities for future research into cultural name mapping that may > further enhance the Common Locale Data Repository.» > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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