You used German ("de") on the Terminator page. Have you switched your
Wikidata language to "de" accordingly?


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:35 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com>wrote:

> i took one example and am lost already, pegasus, listed on top with 5
> labels without description:
>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/index.php?lang=de&term=Pegasus&doit=1
>
> then i take one with a description "Sternbild knapp nördlich des
> Himmelsäquators":
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8864
>
> and, i do not see this description, nor can i figure out where this
> description came from. where did i make the error?
>
> rupert
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Magnus Manske
> <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > <toolspam>
> > The Terminator [1] can show you the most linked-to (~important) items
> with
> > no label ("term", hence the name) in major languages.
> > </toolspam>
> >
> > [1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/index.php
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Lydia Pintscher
> > <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> >> <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hoi,
> >> >
> >> > I do not know if you have seen the statistics compiled by Magnus [1].
> >> > They
> >> > are up to date and useful.
> >> >
> >> > I blogged about it [2]. As far as I am concerned, the biggest
> challenge
> >> > we
> >> > face is the lack of labels. Given that 280+ languages are represented
> in
> >> > Wikidata it clearly demonstrates that Wikidata is useless as it is for
> >> > most
> >> > languages. Please tell me that I am wrong and explain why.
> >>
> >> This is correct to a certain degree. However we have language
> >> fallbacks on the roadmap which will significantly help improve the
> >> situation. Liangent has put a lot of effort into this over the summer
> >> during Google Summer of Code. The other thing is that there is clearly
> >> a number of items which are more used than others. My theory is that
> >> they are also the ones that are more complete. If there is no label in
> >> a small language for a very obscure item than this is less bad as when
> >> there is none for a much-used item. Not all items are created equal.
> >> We should keep that in mind when interpreting statistics.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Lydia
> >>
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