Thank you, Gerard. I have used the tool you alluded to as an end-user, changing
display language from English, to Spanish, to Chinese traditional or to Chinese
simplified.
But the <language> for describing an entity in Wikidata is on the data
recording side. At the moment, <Chinese> (zh) appears to represent spoken and
written Chinese. But the scripts are quite all over the map. I cannot figure
out whether best practices. Will you mind pointing me to the guidelines if you
are aware of one?
Thank you very much.
—Jackie
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 10:23:13 +0100
> From: Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
> To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Guidelines for entering label in various languages,
> e.g. Chinese
>
>
> Hoi,
> For Wikipedia we have a tool that provides to the reader the simplified or
> traditional representation based on the users preference. We could do that
> for Wikidata if we cared to. The same is true for Commons, its search
> engine works for any language based on the availability of Wikidata labels
> in other languages and we could serve more than half the world's population
> if we cared to.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 21:09, j s <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was alerted that there are many properties without a label in zh-Hant
>> <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=-haslabel:zh-hant&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns120=1>.
>> When I reviewed the search result, I was surprised to see Chinese
>> traditional (zh-Hant) and simplified scripts (zh-Hans) were both recorded
>> under the lable Chinese (zh).
>>
>> Does anyone know if there are guidelines for entering data under different
>> language tags, subtags for script and region? Thank you for your help.
>>
>> ---
>> Jackie Shieh
>> Descriptive Data Management
>> Discovery Services Division
>>
>> LibrariesArchives.si.edu
>> library.si.edu
>>
>>
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