Hi,

"Why does Multilingual Wikisource exist" is a long and unrelated question (but to sum it very badly and quickly: Multilingual Wikisource is not just an incubator, it's also a kind of Meta for Wikisource and has some specific uses and extensions).

That said, thanks Vito! It gave me an idea, I looked at the Incubator, Meta, Wikidata or Commons sitelinks in Wikidata : *the language of these sitelinks is also English* (see this SPARQL query https://w.wiki/32N5 ).
The problem is more general than just the Multilingual Wikisource...

Cheers, ~nicolas

Le mer. 24 févr. 2021 à 14:55, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> a écrit :
Hoi,
You are right. One other solution could be to support it in the same way as Commons; without a language code.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 13:49, Nicolas VIGNERON <vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

English is clearly and obviously wrong. "mul" or "und" are not perfect but far better (and "mul" seems to fit better I guess).
Anyway, the multilingual wikisource is meant to be a temporary incubation so maybe we don't need perfect here as the point will solve itself eventually as the language gets its own Wikisource.

@Gerard: yes title can easily be changed (or not used, whatever and what not) but here we are talking about the language of the sitelink (which also raises the question of the language of the website which is also "en" right now), and that part can't be changed by the user (and AFAIK is unique for a wikimedia project).

Cheers, ~nicolas

Le mer. 24 févr. 2021 à 13:28, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> a écrit :
Hoi,
In Wikidata there is a property "title" is has a mandatory parameter in the language. It is also used for books and other publications... It is completely separate from the link to the Wiki .. it being English is totally irrelevant, it can be removed changed whatever from the Wikidata item.
Thanks,
       Gerard

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 09:56, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,

Wikidata is adding support for sitelinks to the Multilingual Wikisource.

There's a discussion there about which language should it use. Currently it's "en", which is not quite correct: technically, the site language of Multilingual Wikisource is English, but most of the content is in other languages.

Ideally, each link should specify the language of the page to which it's linking, but currently this is not possible technically.

Until it's possible, suggestions to use "und" or "mul" have been raised:

I don't have an opinion about this myself. Does anyone else have thoughts about it?

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