Am 04.05.2014 22:50, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
When you see a label in Reasonator, you will find that when it is not in *YOUR*
language, it is underlined in red. You can hover over a label and you will be
prompted to add a label in the named language.
Nice. Label and Description should go together though.
ONLY your language.
So you see a typo, want to edit it, get en empty edit box (what? why?), enter
the correct spelling, save it, and see it for your variant - but you didn't fix
the actual mistake. You provided a new label in a different variant. Confusing.
We need a better solution.
The "wiki expectation" is that you can edit what you see. On top of that, we
want people to provide variant labels. These two things need to be combined nicely.
Wikidata
being Wikidata can provide the option as it already does to see multiple labels
for the languages as selected in the #Babel template. That is the obvious place
to see and edit labels in multiple languages.
Except that doesn't work for Aliases. And generally, people doe *not* set
variants in their babel boxes ("yea, I speak us english, british english,
canadian english and australian english"...).
Yes, this obviously needs to be integrated. How, exactly?
When you think that language fallback in Reasonator is
"easy", it is very much
because the options have been considered properly. It does provide fall back in
a user specified manner. It does show all the labels used for an item but it
does NOT provide an option to edit them. It could, but this is left for Wikidata
itself just like adding statements has been left to Wikidata.
Yea, leave the complicated part to us, but don't complain that it takes time :)
There are three parts to an item in Wikidata. Labels,
statements and links. It
is best imho not to complicate things and leave this partition in place.
By "links" you mean sitelinks? How about referenced items? Fallback needs to
apply there too. And you forget aliases. Labels, descriptions and aliases kind
of go together. They are editable, and should be integrated with Babel stuff.
Labels of referenced sitelinks should have fallback applied, but are not
editable. Sitelinks are unrelated.
As I said: it needs careful design.
-- daniel
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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.