Am 04.05.2014 09:00, schrieb Lydia Pintscher:

> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Where are we with fallback languages?
>
> The status is that we have a plan for the next steps. I realize it is
> important but currently not doable in the next say 3 months.

I would like to add some information about why language fallback is not as
easily done as it may seem. Fallback for *display* is simple enough (as
reasonator proves) - but we allow editing, which makes this much harder.

Consider the case of a user with their language set to "en-gb", but seeing a
label in "en" due to fallback. What should happen if they click "edit"? Which
label will they be editing, the "en" one or the "en-gb" one? They should really
be able to do both, and the consequences of their edit should be obvious to
them. When automatic transliteration comes into play, as is the case with some
chinese variants, things become more complex still.

This is not impossible to solve (e.g. by showing edit boxes for all the relevant
variants, with some additional information), but needs careful design. This
cannot be done overnight.