Since this is just a panel that's available on-demand anyway, perhaps
having an additional dropdown switch to select English/canonical vs.
project-local namespaces/keywords would be handy if it can be made not
too clutter-y.

These kind of choices seem more natural for me to be made when using the data rather than when it is collected. That is: I copy a code that can be used anywhere ("File"), when I paste it into a German wikipedia it either: (a) gets adapted automatically, (b) gets adapted and provides a choice to undo the automatic adaptation or (c) is not modified but an option is provided to do so.

This is how copy&paste works in many places with respect to paste with format, or in plain text. Putting those decisions upfront seems like unnecessary cognitive load.

Pau



On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars@aronsson.se> wrote:
On 05/06/2014 12:51 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
there, people will be annoyed if I embed it as [[File:]] rather than
[[Datei:]].

You could use Unicode letter U+1F4F7 ('camera') as a
synonym for that namespace on all languages:

[[📷:myfilename.jpg|...]]

If you insist on "file" (rather than picture/image), there
is also a 'floppy disk' character (U+1F4BE, 💾). But who
remembers floppy disks in this century...

But then, are there also Unicode symbols for "thumbnail",
"upright", and the other wanted keywords?


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