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A Wikipedia Signpost article[1] gives a more detailed overview of the goals of the project, but it also made me think of an interesting failure case. From the a
by csande17 6y ago
A Wikipedia Signpost article[1] gives a more detailed overview of the goals of the project, but it also made me think of an interesting failure case. From the article:
> Instead of saying "in order to deny her the advantage of the incumbent, the board votes in January 2018 to replace her with Mark Farrell as interim mayor until the special elections", imagine we say something more abstract such as elect(elector: Board of Supervisors, electee: Mark Farrell, position: Mayor of San Francisco, reason: deny(advantage of incumbency, London Breed)) – and even more, all of these would be language-independent identifiers, so that thing would actually look more like Q40231(Q3658756, Q6767574, Q1343202(Q6015536, Q6669880)).
But Q1343202 doesn't mean "denial" as in "preventing someone else from getting something", it means "denial" as in "refusing to accept reality". (See [2].) The two concepts are represented by the same word in English, but they might not be in other languages.
It seems like it'd be kind of tricky to create an interface that ensures other English-speaking editors indicate the right meaning of "denial".
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-04-26/In_focus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost...
[2] https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343202 https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343202
- bawolff 6y agoI think the answer is be as clear as possible in the interface, but also accept mistakes will be made. People make grammar mistakes in (normal) wikipedia all the time, then other people come along and fix them. I expect the same will occur here.