#Wikidata vs #Wikipedia - Rukmini Maria Callimachi

Mrs Callimachi did not only win the Polk Award, she is both a journalist and a poet and did not only win journalism awards. One of the awards, the Michael Kelly Award is hidden on the Wikipedia article of Michael Kelly. 

This article is about how Wikidata and English Wikipedia can help each other. The Wikipedia article lists seven awards and this makes it easy to add other award winners for them as well.

Thanks to Magnus' awarder, this is fairly easy but some awards hide out as part of an article and the award has to be added in Wikidata.  It may be one reason why later awards are missing. The religious award she is said to have won, it is a different award with a similar name. The award and the organisation that confers it had to be created.

The point, we can compare data at a Wikipedia with what we have on Wikidata. They should match. When they do not, there is an issue. Copying the data from Wikipedia is easy and it is the obvious thing to do. When Wikipedians decry the quality of Wikidata, they should reflect on why this is the case. When we collaborate, we will slowly but surely improve our quality. In the final analysis our aim is the same; share in the sum of all knowledge.
Thanks,
      GerardM

Using the Ş or Ș In #Romanian

The definition of the subset of #Unicode characters used for the Romanian language is quite clear; only the Ș and the ș is correct for the șe. This does not mean however that everybody uses the comma under the S and not a cedilla.

Before Unicode became common place typing the comma under a character was really hard. As a consequence many, many expressions of Romanian are erroneous. People got used to writing with a cedilla.

With the later versions of MS Windows, the keyboard mapping for Romanian made it easy to write correct Romanian. For the people stuck with a wrong keyboard we can easily have Narayam provide a modern input method for Romanian.

This is currently a big deal for the Romanian and English language Wiktionaries. They are in the process of correcting every occurrence of a wrongly written șe and țe. This is quite an undertaking because it affects interwiki links to other Wiktionaries as well.

It also means that they want to ensure that only a correct șe or țe is written in Romanian. This is complicated by the fact that a Ş is correct in for instance Turkish. Being able to identify a text for its language is therefore quite important.

The solution currently implemented on the Romanian Wikipedia is that any t or s with a cedilla is converted to a proper șe or țe. As a consequence Turkish names of people and places are likely to be spelled incorrectly.
Thanks,
      GerardM

PS Please note that the font used for the title does not cope with these characters.