Re: [Wikitech-l] Multilingual maps: how to pick each feature language?

2017-02-10 Thread Trey Jones
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > I know Mediawiki has language fallbacks, but they are very simple (e.g. for > "ru", if "ru" is not there, try "en"). > Russian is a major world language, so there isn't really anywhere else to go. The fallbacks

Re: [Wikitech-l] Multilingual maps: how to pick each feature language?

2017-02-10 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Le 10/02/2017 à 02:31, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit : TLDR: if browsing a map for French wiki, and a city only has a Russian and Chinese name, which one should be shown? Should the city name have different rules from a store or a street name? ... Well, the third option might be to engage user to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Multilingual maps: how to pick each feature language?

2017-02-10 Thread Strainu
2017-02-10 3:31 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan : > TLDR: if browsing a map for French wiki, and a city only has a Russian and > Chinese name, which one should be shown? Should the city name have > different rules from a store or a street name? ... Where exactly are those names

[Wikitech-l] Multilingual maps: how to pick each feature language?

2017-02-09 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
TLDR: if browsing a map for French wiki, and a city only has a Russian and Chinese name, which one should be shown? Should the city name have different rules from a store or a street name? ... I have been hacking to add unlimited multilingual support to Wikipedia maps, and have language fallback