Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:50:14 +0200
From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
To: bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Commons-l] translation of categories
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bawolff, 25/02/2011 22:53:
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out of date.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