Two quick thoughts on fallback languages: One general rule perhaps could be to not select a language with a different script when one in the same script is available. (At least for users with a preference for a latin language - this may be different the other way around.)
A broader solution could be offering the user an individual setting for a the sequence of fallback languages (as used, e.g., in http content negotiation) across all Wikidata interfaces. But of course that's a much larger effort, and has perhaps been discussed elsewhere already. Cheers, Joachim > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Wikidata-tech [mailto:[email protected]] Im > Auftrag von Stas Malyshev > Gesendet: Freitag, 3. November 2017 01:40 > An: Wikidata technical discussion; Lydia Pintscher > Cc: Internal communications for WMF search and discovery team > Betreff: Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata fulltext search results output > > Hi! > > > When showing labels from fallback languages we do have little language > > indicators in other places. I believe we should have this here as > > Makes sense. I'll look into how to get those. Is language code OK or we need > full language name (uk vs. Ukrainian)? > > One thing to note here is that secondary languages have no order - i.e. > if you look in German, and there's no matching German label, but there are 10 > other language labels all the same (happens a lot for names & places), which > language will be selected is anybody's guess. We could add rule that says > "look > at English as secondary first", in theory, but not sure whether we should - > after > all, besides having most languages, (and us speaking it :) there's not much > special about it. > > > I'm slightly leaning toward showing both. > > OK. > > > I'd say in this case we could get rid of the word/byte count. To get a > > good glimpse of the quality of the item I'd say we'd want to show > > count of statements (excluding identifier statements), identifiers and > > sitelinks. > > OK, I'll try to make this. > > >> 5. Display format for Wikidata and for other wikipedia sites is different: > >> Wikpedia: > >> > >> Title > >> Snippet > >> > >> Wikidata: > >> > >> Title: Description > >> > >> I.e. Wikipedia puts title on a separate line, while Wikidata keeps it > >> on the same line, separated by colon. Is there any reason for this > >> difference? Do we want to go back to the common format? > > > > Not sure if we had a reason tbh. > > OK then, I'll feel free to shuffle things around then :) Having more freedom > in > the title line is good because we can then display both label & aliases. > > Thanks! > -- > Stas Malyshev > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
