Re: [Wikidata-tech] Two questions about Lexeme Modeling

2016-11-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 25.11.2016 um 12:16 schrieb David Cuenca Tudela: >> If we want to avoid this complexity, we could just go by prefix. So if the >> languages is "de", variants like "de-CH" or "de-DE_old" would be considered >> ok. >> Ordering these alphabetically would put the "main" code (with no suffix) >> fi

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Two questions about Lexeme Modeling

2016-11-25 Thread Thiemo Mättig
Hi all! I tweaked my part of the decision matrix a little bit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PtGkt6E8EadCoNvZLClwUNhCxC-cjTy5TY8seFVGZMY/edit?ts=5834219d#gid=868938568 The arguments in my matrix are basically a collection of "the worst things that can happen". I like this approach. ;-)

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Two questions about Lexeme Modeling

2016-11-25 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
> If we want to avoid this complexity, we could just go by prefix. So if the > languages is "de", variants like "de-CH" or "de-DE_old" would be considered ok. > Ordering these alphabetically would put the "main" code (with no suffix) first. > May be ok for a start. I find this issue potentially co

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Two questions about Lexeme Modeling

2016-11-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Thank you Denny for having an open mind! And sorry for being a nuisance ;) I think it's very important to have controversial but constructive discussions about these things. Data models are very hard to change even slightly once people have started to create and use the data. We need to try hard t