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🖹 REST API for Wikibase data
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Language selection? #38

Closed zone47 closed 8 years ago

zone47 commented 8 years ago

Hello. After somes tests, this API looks like a great tool which could be so much useful. What about languages selection ? It seems (maybe I do not understand well) that is not supported for now. Is it planned ? What will happen if there is no label in requested language ? First an alterntative in English and if there is no, in another language ?

jane023 commented 8 years ago

Most items are missing labels in some language. For items without any sitelinks there is generally only one lablel. If you only accept input through a textlabel then I guess it will still work if you use the Q and P numbers as those are the defaults, but I am not sure. Having worked a lot in artworks on Wikidata I have noticed problems looking up artworks with the same title if the description is blank. There is no disambiguation because that is what the Q and P numbers are supposed to solve. I think it's better to keep to a two-step process for those wishing to use text labels, namely first look up the Q/P numbers and serve both text and numbers back (if the text is available)

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Hello. After somes tests, this API looks like a great tool which could be so much useful. What about languages selection ? It seems (maybe I do not understand well) that is not supported for now. Is it planned ? What will happen if there is no label in requested language ? First an alterntative in English and if there is no, in another language ?

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zone47 commented 8 years ago

Thank you Jane. My question was not clear: it isn't how to query in a specific language but is it possible with a Q to get label for a specific language and what would happen if there is no label in this language.

jane023 commented 8 years ago

Hmm I would expect if the label doesn't exist that the Q/P number would be returned as default (this is also how it currently works in Autolist when you set the language to a different code and hit download the second time, which is btw the method I used to copy artist name labels from one language to another)

JeroenDeDauw commented 8 years ago

These tracking issue for language selection support answers part of your question and asks some of its own: Add language selection support

Related other issues are:

Feel free to reopen or create a new issue if those do not cover all your questions. Feedback on the open questions listed on the linked issues is very welcome.