All really great suggestions and thanks for seeing which ones we can do, Stas! :) Let me know if you want/need help with tickets, UI work, etc.
Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > > I would definitely like to see the label that matched. Even if you don't > > know the language, seeing a partial match vs a full match is > > informative. If I search for /Москва,/ and I get back "Moscow" and > > "Armenian Cemetery" I don't know what's what. Seeing that Moscow is > > "Russian: *Москва*" and Armenian Cemetery is "Russian: Армянское > > кладбище (*Москва*)" tells me immediately that Moscow is probably a > > better match, even if I don't know any Russian or Cyrillic. > > Which kinda tells me maybe we should display both. How about this: > - display the main title in the title position (highlight if it matched) > - if the match was in alias, display under it: (alias: <HIGHLIGHTED MATCH>) > - if the match was in different language, display instead under it: > (Russian: <HIGHLIGHTED RUSSIAN MATCH>) > - then display description in display language (highlight if it matched) > - then under it, if different language description matched, display it > below: (Russian: <HIGHLIGHTED RUSSIAN DESCRIPTION>) > > That'd be a bit more work, but I *think* it should be doable (famous > last words :). > > > Any names will have similar problems. "Jacek Moskwa" is the same in all > > 12 languages with a label. His descriptions say he's Polish, so I guess > > Polish is the right answer, but I don't think there's any way to know > that. > > The current display language will always take priority, I think. Then > goes the fallback chain (we'll still use fallbacks for these purposes I > think). If none of these march, I guess it'd be up to source_text field, > in which case we probably won't have any highlighting working (since > highlighting is useless on that) but maybe we could try some tricks with > highlighter to get at least something out of it. > > > I'd want to see the both, maybe as "West Germany (*FRG*)" if I search > > for FRG—hey, the autocompletion suggester does that already! > > Yep, but it has completely different GUI, so I can't really reuse it. I > can take inspiration from it though :) > > > I can see that "Title: Description" saves some vertical space, but I > > would prefer the description to be on the next line. > > Same here. Especially as - per above - we could have more than one of each. > > > Moscow (*Москва*) (Q649) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649> > > capital city and the largest city of Russia; separate federal subject of > > Russia > > 386 KB (537 statements) - 08:33, 15 October 2017 > > > > Moskva River (Q175117) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175117> > > Russian: *Москва* > > river in Moscow and Moscow region > > 40 KB (31 statements) - 14:21, 25 September 2017 > > > > FC Moscow (Q392115) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392115> > > Russian: *Москва* > > association football club > > 18 KB (12 statements) - 15:35, 17 October 2017 > > > > Moscow 24 (Q1572348) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1572348> > > Russian: *Москва* 24 > > television channel > > 9 KB (14 statements) - 06:13, 11 June 2017 > > > > Armenian Cemetery (Q685338) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q685338> > > Russian: Армянское кладбище (*Москва*) > > cemetery > > 8 KB (7 statements) - 10:07, 2 September 2017 > > > > ... although pulling out the Russian specifically is probably not > possible. > > Looks good to me, I'll see which ones of these are actually possible :) > And many thanks for detailed feedback, that's exactly what I was looking > for. > > -- > Stas Malyshev > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > discovery-private mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery-private >
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