On 27 April 2013 21:07, Liangent <[email protected]> wrote: ] > * If some content doesn't exist in some specific language, users with > this exact language set in their preferences see something meaningless > (its ID instead). This renders some language with fewer users (thus > fewer labels filled) even unusable. > * There're some similar languages which may often share the same > value. Having strings populated for every language one by one wastes > resources and may allow them out of sync later.
I would absolutely love to see this - even for English, our system is broken! At the moment, if I view Wikidata as an unregistered user from a UK IP, I am prompted "View Wikidata in British English?". As soon as I click that link - which seems perfectly reasonable - I get a mess like: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8442?uselang=en-gb (14 "no label defined", one of which is a property; no description or "also known as") In en-ca it's much the same; 15 no-label. If we're going to have to have these, we need some way of falling back to en... -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
