Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-04 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Joe Filceolaire filceola...@gmail.com wrote: Where are we with fallback languages? I did a session for new editors with Magnus last weekend and one of the questions that came up was why one of the students couldn't see most of the labels - he had his

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-04 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: It's the same in 2014. If you visit the site from the UK while not logged in, you get encouraged to View Wikidata in British English through the internationalisation header, despite the fact that this will make it

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The question is much bigger than British English. If you language is Hindi, Odia or Malayalam you will find that many labels are just not available. The one reason why Reasonator is so important is that it does provide language fall back. Language fallback is not a luxury like it is for

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Lydia Pintscher, 04/05/2014 09:03: If fallback languages aren't going to be available soon, then we really need to think - at the very least - about disabling this message. Yes I think that makes sense. Does anyone know details about that? As in: how to turn it off? Very easy.

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you see a label in Reasonator, you will find that when it is not in *YOUR* language, it is underlined in red. You can hover over a label and you will be prompted to add a label in the named language. ONLY your language. Wikidata being Wikidata can provide the option as it already does to

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-04 Thread Sjoerd de Bruin
Hey everyone, It's quite annoying every time I want to use a item, but it has no Dutch label. So it doesn't show up if you want to use it with like adding statements. Fallback is a big thing. Greetings, Sjoerd Op 4 mei 2014 om 22:50 heeft Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com het

Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #108

2014-05-04 Thread Joe Filceolaire
I agree with Gerard that you only edit your language label in the 'label' edit box. If the label box is showing the label in a fallback language then it should be visually different - greyed out and italic for instance or like the 'edit label in English' text. If a user wants to edit other