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


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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.
>
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