Hoi,
You are right. One other solution could be to support it in the same way as
Commons; without a language code.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 13:49, Nicolas VIGNERON <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> English is clearly and obviously wrong. "mul" or "und" are not perfect but
> far better (and "mul" seems to fit better I guess).
> Anyway, the multilingual wikisource is meant to be a temporary incubation
> so maybe we don't need perfect here as the point will solve itself
> eventually as the language gets its own Wikisource.
>
> @Gerard: yes title can easily be changed (or not used, whatever and what
> not) but here we are talking about the language of the sitelink (which also
> raises the question of the language of the website which is also "en" right
> now), and that part can't be changed by the user (and AFAIK is unique for a
> wikimedia project).
>
> Cheers, ~nicolas
>
> Le mer. 24 févr. 2021 à 13:28, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
> a écrit :
>
>> Hoi,
>> In Wikidata there is a property "title" is has a mandatory parameter in
>> the language. It is also used for books and other publications... It is
>> completely separate from the link to the Wiki .. it being English is
>> totally irrelevant, it can be removed changed whatever from the Wikidata
>> item.
>> Thanks,
>> Gerard
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 09:56, Amir E. Aharoni <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Wikidata is adding support for sitelinks to the Multilingual Wikisource.
>>>
>>> There's a discussion there about which language should it use. Currently
>>> it's "en", which is not quite correct: technically, the site language of
>>> Multilingual Wikisource is English, but most of the content is in other
>>> languages.
>>>
>>> Ideally, each link should specify the language of the page to which it's
>>> linking, but currently this is not possible technically.
>>>
>>> Until it's possible, suggestions to use "und" or "mul" have been raised:
>>>
>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#language_of_https://wikisource.org/_:_currently_%22en%22_(_phab:T138332)
>>>
>>> I don't have an opinion about this myself. Does anyone else have
>>> thoughts about it?
>>>
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