Hoi,
There used to be a time when the WMF had a team dedicated to language
technology. I know, I was part of it.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 15:18, j s <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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