Hi! > You mean the MediaWiki message processing code? This would probably be
Yes, exactly. > powerful enough for units as well, but it works based on message strings > that look a bit like MW template calls. Someone has to enter such > strings for all units (and languages). This would be doable but the > added power comes at the price of more difficult editing of such message > strings instead of plain labels. True. OTOH, we already have non-plain strings in the database - e.g. math formulae - so that would be another example of such strings. It's not ideal but would be a start, and maybe we can have some gadgets later to deal with it :) >> Oh yes :) Russian is one, but I'm sure there are others. >> > > Forgive my ignorance; I was not able to read the example you gave there. Sorry, it's hard to give examples in foreign languages that would be comprehensible :) The gist of it is that Russian, as many other inflected languages, changes nouns by grammatical case, and uses different cases for different number of items (i.e. 1, 2, and 5 will use three different cases). Labels are of course in singular nominative case, which is wrong for many numbers. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
