On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:57 AM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
You know, typically you are right. In the last few days I added members of
the chamber of deputies of Haiti. I used names from the English Wikipedia
but I am not sure that the names are correct. In one instance I found that
the first name was at the back for others I am not sure that we have it
right.
The problem with rules are the exceptions and for automated approaches you
have to seriously consider these.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 February 2017 at 07:46, Konstantinos Stampoulis <geraki(a)geraki.gr>
wrote:
Indeed in many cases a translation is needed, but for some languages and
specific types of entities what is needed is just a transcription if not
just a copy from the original language. For example names of humans or
settlements. I guess for some languages with the same script, one can just
copy the label, f.e. for a british person from en to fr.
Konstantinos Stampoulis
geraki(a)geraki.gr
http://www.geraki.gr
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μπορείτε να το χρησιμοποιήσετε σε οποιαδήποτε δημόσια συζήτηση. Δεν έχω
τίποτε να κρύψω. :-)
2017-02-19 18:16 GMT+02:00 Smolenski Nikola <smolensk(a)eunet.rs>rs>:
Citiranje Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
If you look in the recent changes, most items
have labels in English and
those are shown in the recent changes and elsewhere (so we know what the
item is about without opening first). But not all items have labels, and
these items without English label are often items with only a label in
Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic script, Hebrew, etc. This forms a significant
gap.
Is there a way to easily make a transcription from one language to
another?
Or alternatively if there is a database that has
such transcriptions?
There is in many cases, however there are some problems associated with
it. You
may not know what is the original language to transcribe from, you might
need a
translation rather than transcription, if there are multiple labels you
have no
way to choose between them.
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