Nearby item label: If user's languages not available, show in the item's language if available

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The Wikimedia Commons Android app allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons

https://commons-app.github.io/

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Nearby item label: If user's languages not available, show in the item's language if available #729

Open nicolas-raoul opened 7 years ago

nicolas-raoul commented 7 years ago

In the user's phone's language(s) as described at #516
If not available, in the local language of the item, for instance if I am in France then show the French name (or one of the local languages, for multilingual places like Mauritius)
If not available, in any language available

So, let's say I am a German person in Paris. The app should show the label in German, or in French, or in any other language (for instance Spanish). And show the QID only if no label is available in any language.

tobias47n9e commented 7 years ago

This ist very difficult to get right. In countries that have multiple scripts, a user might prefer English second to a language spoken in a neighbour province. I think the best is for power users to be able to give a list of fallback languages. Plus Wikidata (also the world in general) has languages that can't be easily mapped to location.

whym commented 7 years ago

There is a similar (but location-ignorant) idea in #516.