I think it would be nice if the *official name* property could have a special treatment in the UI. Something like the way you plan to sort out ids out of the rest of the statements :) But I have no idea.
It's an important things, the name the local people gives to a place or a thing, it may be on road signs for example. It's kind of the "Main Name". 2015-05-02 11:54 GMT+02:00 Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de>: > Am 02.05.2015 um 11:32 schrieb Thomas Douillard: > > Yes, that's what they are for, but wikidata is far from beeing complete, > and if > > there is no label in your language, showing next to the original name a > > transliteration in your language could prove useful. I can very well > imagine > > situations where it is unclear on how to say a Chinese name, for example. > > Putting a label in french can somewhat be a hard task, for example. > > Automatic transliteration is already implemented and used. You will notice > if > you set your user language to sr-el for instance (Serbian using latin > alphabet). > However: > > * Transliteration is currently only supported between a handful of language > variants, like the different scripts for Serbian, and various variants of > Chinese. > > * Transliteration (and language fallback in general) is only applied inside > statements, not for editable labels, descriptions and aliases at the top > of the > page. It's unclear hoe language fallback should interact with editing. > > * Transliteration (and language fallback in general) may not work > correctly in > qualifiers and references at the moment. > > So, the general mechanism is already there, the question is just how to > improve > an apply it. It seems to me that we could use transliteration support for > more > languages, and that we should figure out a way to apply it to the "main" > label > and description shown at the top of the page. > > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Senior Software Developer > > Wikimedia Deutschland > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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