Den 02-01-2014 15:02, Frederic Da Vitoria skrev: > I don't know where what is the current situation about languages in the > DB. If it is far from handling languages correctly, and if instrument > entities are implemented before languages, we could temporarily restrict > the instrument language to English. English is the language currently > used for the instrument tree, and it is probably the language which has > the most instruments translated into it.
"Languages" are already implemented and several site translations are well underway. We agreed at the summit to open up for the German translation on the main site. I don't know why that's not happened yet. If(/when) instrument-as-entities are added, we'll be able to fully utilise the power of the alias and disambiguation systems. Two instruments called the same can have disambiguation notes. One instrument called different things in different languages can have localised aliases. One instrument called multiple things in one language can have multiple (localised) aliases. E.g., "viola" could have the French primary alias "alto", the Danish primary alias "bratsch", and an additional Danish alias "viola". The search system also takes aliases into account, so searching for either viola, alto, or bratsch would make this instrument show up in the results. Whether we're currently "handling languages correctly" is probably rather debatable though. I'd say no, but I think we need some more wide-spread testing (e.g., get some non-English languages enabled on mb.o) allowing users to get a feel for what needs to be handled differently. -- Namasté, Frederik "Freso" S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/> MB: https://musicbrainz.org/user/Freso Wiki: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Freso
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