How about if I don't want such fallback to work for me? What if I'd like to see what is labeled and what is not? Have you considered this a user option with a flexible fallback schema or a site-wide preference with a fixed one?
In general, this is a very good Wikidata feature yet not implemented. And thanks for raising the category redirects once again! :) On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Liangent <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've drafted my proposal about language fallback and conversion issues > for Wikidata at [1]. > > Currently Wikidata stores multilingual contents. Labels (names, > descriptions etc) are expected to be written in every language, so > every user can read them in their own language. But there're some > problems currently: > > * If some content doesn't exist in some specific language, users with > this exact language set in their preferences see something meaningless > (its ID instead). This renders some language with fewer users (thus > fewer labels filled) even unusable. > * There're some similar languages which may often share the same > value. Having strings populated for every language one by one wastes > resources and may allow them out of sync later. > * Even for languages which are not "that similar", MediaWiki already > has some facility to transliterate (aka. convert) contents from its > another sister language (aka. variant) which can be used to provide > better results for users. > > This proposal aims at resolving these issues by displaying contents > from another language to users based on user preferences (some users > may know more than one languages), language similarity (language > fallback chain), or the possibility to do transliteration, and allow > proper editing on these contents. > > Although Wikidata is in its fast development stage, lots of data have > been added to it. The later we resolve these issues, the more > duplications may be created which will require more clean up work in > the future, like what we had to face before / when the language > converter (that transliteration system) was introduced for the Chinese > Wikipedia. So I'm planning to do this project in this summer. > > There's also a backup proposal about category redirects at [2]. I > wrote it because I really want to see it implemented too, either by me > or someone else. Some of its contents may be also useful for other > participants willing to do this project. > > Comments are welcome and appreciated. > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Liangent/wb-lang > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Liangent/cat-redir > > -Liangent > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- З павагай, Павел Селіцкас/Pavel Selitskas Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
