Hi,

"Why does Multilingual Wikisource exist" is a long and unrelated question
(but to sum it very badly and quickly: Multilingual Wikisource is not just
an incubator, it's also a kind of Meta for Wikisource and has some specific
uses and extensions).

That said, thanks Vito! It gave me an idea, I looked at the Incubator,
Meta, Wikidata or Commons sitelinks in Wikidata : *the language of these
sitelinks is also English* (see this SPARQL query https://w.wiki/32N5 ).
The problem is more general than just the Multilingual Wikisource...

Cheers, ~nicolas

Le mer. 24 févr. 2021 à 14:55, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
a écrit :

> 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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