Am 04.05.2014 09:00, schrieb Lydia Pintscher: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Joe Filceolaire <[email protected]> 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 language set to British English. He asked why there was >> no fallback to international English. > > The status is that we have a plan for the next steps. I realize it is > important but currently not doable in the next say 3 months.
I would like to add some information about why language fallback is not as easily done as it may seem. Fallback for *display* is simple enough (as reasonator proves) - but we allow editing, which makes this much harder. Consider the case of a user with their language set to "en-gb", but seeing a label in "en" due to fallback. What should happen if they click "edit"? Which label will they be editing, the "en" one or the "en-gb" one? They should really be able to do both, and the consequences of their edit should be obvious to them. When automatic transliteration comes into play, as is the case with some chinese variants, things become more complex still. This is not impossible to solve (e.g. by showing edit boxes for all the relevant variants, with some additional information), but needs careful design. This cannot be done overnight. -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
