daniel added a comment.
I think automatic transformation based on regular expressions can only work for a very narrow set of applications. We need something that is more robust and scales better in terms of community involvement.
I think we could sidestep the grammar issue by using unit symbols
Smalyshev added a comment.
@Nikerabbit I think you are right that we won't be able to design regexp formula that allows to grammatically display arbitrary unit for arbitrary language any time soon.
However, there is a middle ground here - we don't have to go all the way from unit label to а
Amire80 added a comment.
As a pet project I've been very slowly migrating grammar data from PHP and JS code to generic JSON: T115217. (I haven't touched it in a few months, and thanks to @Smalyshev's email from today I recalled it.)
Since the strings for unit names are not MediaWiki messages, but
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Snaterlicious added a comment.
Would be awesome to document the reasoning behind the agreements. So, instead
of flexible entity types, there will be special properties? As that is a very
fundamental decision, it should be evaluated properly as to other use cases
(spontaneously,
