Wikidata/Notes/Language fallback: Difference between revisions

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From the perspective of a client (e.g. the French Wikipedia) that displays data from a Wikidata item in an infobox, some properties in an item may not have a language-specific label in the currently selected language available. In this case, a fallback mechanism should be used to show an available label from another language.

Fallback can be based on:

* similarities between languages (e.g. en-GB -> en)

* the languages a signed-in user speaks

* the languages signaled by the browser

* the language of the client (e.g. en for en.Wikipedia.org)

* eventually *any* language will do.

If a value from a different language is shown in the UI, then

** the value's language should be indicated (small colored text?)

** there should be a button to approve the value for the current language ("yes, it's the same in my language")

==User fallback chain==