On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know Mediawiki has language fallbacks, but they are very simple (e.g. for > "ru", if "ru" is not there, try "en"). > Russian is a major world language, so there isn't really anywhere else to go. The fallbacks specified on the Localisation statistics page ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation_statistics ) are useful for choosing which world language or supra-regional language to fall back to when you don't have info in a given language. It doesn't address a lot of your harder questions of what to do when world languages collide, or when politics gets involved. When viewing a map of China in English, should Chinese (local) name be > shown together with the English name? Should it be shown for all types of > features (city name, street name, name of the church, ...?) As a maps user, I'd like both the local name and the name in my language on any feature where that's possible (though not both if they are identical, as with "Paris"). The name in my language helps me navigate the map, and the local name helps me navigate the world with the map. These are definitely some hard problems. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
