[Mediawiki-i18n] Fallback sequences

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
In Wikidata / Reasonator [1] we have a different approach. We allow for a
more arbitrary fall back for labels within the "Reasonator". We would like
to base the fall back on the information as provided by a user in his or
her #babel template. We underline the labels that are not in the primary
language in red. There is no API at this time so we have the technology for
display but not yet a way to get that information for a user.

In addition to this English is our ultimate fall back language HOWEVER when
there is no label in English we take any language because a label in any
language is more informative than for instance Q6502703.
Thanks,
      GerardM

[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/test/?lang=ml,hi,te,ta&q=6502703


On 19 January 2014 15:36, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Now Lua has access to the internal fallback sequences of MediaWiki [1], so
> this can be used to gracefully degrade the translation of the templates
> included in a page, by the means of {{Translatable template}} (also called
> {{TNT}}) or auto-translated templates which use {{Fallback}}, mainly on
> Commons. I worked on this yesterday [2].
>
> But I send this message mainly to show the comparison between the fallback
> sequences of Commons vs MediaWiki [3].
>
> I guess some fallback sequences of Commons could be added to MediaWiki:
> * af -> nl
> * br -> fr (not sure)
> * ckb -> fa
> * en-gb -> en
> * fy -> nl
>
> There is one conflicting fallback sequence:
> * co -> fr (Commons) or it (MediaWiki)
>
> And some differences:
> * pdt -> nds, de (Commons) or de (MediaWiki)
> * nds -> nds-nl, de (Commons) or de (MediaWiki)
> * nds-nl -> nds, nl (Commons) or nl (MediaWiki)
>
> And more importantly, the purposes of the fallback sequences are a bit
> different inside a same language family/variant family: MediaWiki
> specializes from general to variants (often by script), but Commons does
> the opposite: degrades from variants to general. I find a feature could be
> added in the Translate extension to give access to these "reverse fallback
> sequences" by comparison to MediaWiki’s ones. This could be implemented
> either by creating a small database (perhaps add the opposite parameter of
> $fallback in the MessagesXX.php) either by computing these. This could be
> used for the translation of the templates, in Special:MyLanguage [bug
> 48292], and to redirect the translators to the general language (the
> messages "Translate in zh please." in $wgTranslateBlacklist of
> CommonSettings.php in Wikimedia config).
>
> [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/101910
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module_talk:Template_
> translation#Fallback
> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Fallback#
> Comparison_of_the_fallback_sequences_between_.7B.
> 7BFallback.7D.7D_and_MediaWiki
> [bug 48292] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/48292
>
> ~ Seb35
>
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