"Daniel Kinzler" daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de writes:
Am 05.05.2014 01:35, schrieb Joe Filceolaire:
I agree with Gerard that you only edit your language label in the 'label' edit box. If the label box is showing the label in a fallback language then it should be visually different - greyed out and italic for instance or like the 'edit label in English' text. If a user wants to edit other language labels then that is what the 'in other languages' boxes are for.
That's probably a good approach, but would need the "other languages" box to become more flexible, and include aliases. It's also strange to have it visually separate from the thing you actually want to change. Not easy to get this right.
Since my "other languages" box is using some more than 5 maximal screen heights, having it slightly separated does not disturb me. Not any more, at least.
There are two things which are not directly related to variants but imho could be fixed in one go with them: - Entries are using up much too much valuable space. I wish to delete all whitespace, and use a more list orientated approach. At least as an option. - it is really frustrating that I cannot enter many labels which I know since Wikidata (for no apparent reason) does not allow labels to be added for a whole lot of languages, and that my babel list has to be incomplete because #babel does not offer many languages.
Purodha