Re: [Wikidata-l] Order of language links

2013-01-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
What about cases where there is no English Link or Label? I've been adding English labels to tons of items, but not links as there are none. I'm a bit tied up right now, else I'd create stub articles in English. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: I think the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Order of language links

2013-01-10 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: What about cases where there is no English Link or Label? I've been adding English labels to tons of items, but not links as there are none. I'm a bit tied up right now, else I'd create stub articles in

Re: [Wikidata-l] Order of language links

2013-01-10 Thread Marco Fleckinger
Hello, On 01/10/13 13:49, Lydia Pintscher wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: What about cases where there is no English Link or Label? I've been adding English labels to tons of items, but not links as there are none. I'm a bit tied

Re: [Wikidata-l] Order of language links

2013-01-09 Thread Jane Darnell
I think the order of languages is only important for articles with lots of interwiki links, but for the vast majority of articles there will be less than 5 or so and it doesn't matter. I often click on article interwikis for languages I don't know and can't read (like Japanese). I do this for

Re: [Wikidata-l] Order of language links

2013-01-08 Thread BinĂ¡ris
Could this order be automatically determined for each Wikipedia? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_sorting_order ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Re: [Wikidata-l] Order of language links

2013-01-08 Thread LD 100
I would preferred if this could also be changed by each users individually in the settings (maybe the settings could be set globally) On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:43 PM, BinĂ¡ris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: Could this order be automatically determined for each Wikipedia?

Re: [Wikidata-l] Order of language links

2013-01-08 Thread Meng Lu
It's an interesting point. I personally would prefer seeing the Wikipedia instance's own language and English stay at the top, followed by the rest in alphabetical order.A longer stretch might be providing alternative ordering methods for languages such as alphabetical order, descending sizes

Re: [Wikidata-l] Order of language links

2013-01-08 Thread Platonides
On 08/01/13 22:31, LD 100 wrote: I would preferred if this could also be changed by each users individually in the settings (maybe the settings could be set globally) Although preferences are evil, I see the point for customizing this. Having ar: in the top if I have no idea of that language