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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:50:14 +0200 From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com To: bawolff+wn@gmail.com, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Commons-l] translation of categories Message-ID: 5007CA46.6040100@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

bawolff, 25/02/2011 22:53:

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Someone in the thread on friendliness mentioned that categories are always in one language (usually english). Well still a long way from fixing the issue, perhaps if we allowed unrestricted {{DISPLAYTITLE:...}}, combined with the {{int: hack, that'd allow better translatable categories. (of course you'd only be able to use the actual category name in [[category:Foo]] links. I suppose one could use a bot to automatically change links to redirect categories to their canonical name, but then we're getting really really hacky).

Anyways, just a thought.

There's a feature request for the Translate extension (which is needed anyway to make MediaWiki a multilingual wiki) at: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29975

Nemo

Is there anything to stop us using category redirects to resolve this? Currently I think there is advice to use them sparingly, but that could be out of date. I can see that in the past there may have been processing overhead concerns, but category redirects do strike me as the most logical way to resolve this. Of course with 2 million categories and over two hundred languages there is a possibilty of there being quite a large number of category redirects and that having an impact on Hotcat and catalot. But there would be a way to resolve this, categorise those category redirects as redirects from particular languages to English and enable editors to pick and choose which languages in addition to English that they want Hotcat and Catalot to offer them in auto completion - the default obviously would be your language preference and the babel boxes on your userpage.

WSC