It's always possible to transliterate the official name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1448>property. Of course this should be done by a gadget, or we may have to find a special treatment for the ''name'' properties.
2015-04-28 23:06 GMT+02:00 Joe Filceolaire <filceola...@gmail.com>: > I agree up to a point. Transliteration is not appropriate for labels for > all items. There are however a few categories of items for which > transliterated labels are appropriate. For example : > * English labels for villages and towns > * English labels for people > *English labels for bands and albums > I'm sure there are others that could use this too. > > Joe > On 27 Apr 2015 18:09, "Leon Liesener" <leon.liese...@wikipedia.de> wrote: > >> The problem with ISO is that it's a standard for language-independent >> transliteration to Latin script. Since labels on Wikidata are >> language-dependent, making use of ISO does not make sense really. If >> you use ISO for Russian names in Cyrillic script, the label you get is >> not in English. It's still in Russian but transliterated to Latin >> script. ISO thus would only fit as an alias for the Russian interface >> language, if at all. >> >> 2015-04-26 22:39 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>: >> > Hoi, >> > <grin> ISO is a reliable source; it is THE standard </grin> Wikipedia is >> > definitely not a standard by its own admission. >> > Thanks, >> > GerardM >> > >> > On 26 April 2015 at 22:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 2015-04-26 22:33, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hoi >> >>> My point is that it is not a given that we should follow any WIkipedia >> >>> for anything. Also the point of romanisation of Russian is not for the >> >>> benefit of Russian speakers, it is for the speakers of English. >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> GerardM >> >>> >> >> >> >> On one hand, yes. >> >> >> >> On the other hand, no reliable source uses ISO. When NYT writes about a >> >> Russian person, they do not use ISO, they use what the English >> Wikipedia >> >> uses or smth similar. In my passport, they do not use ISO >> (fortunately), why >> >> should then ISO be used on Wikidata in an entry about me? >> >> >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Yaroslav >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikidata-l mailing list >> > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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