Lydia_Pintscher added a comment.
@Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE and I read through everything and spent some more time thinking this through. Thank you everyone for providing all the input, especially @Nikki. That really helped. One thing to still clarify or the discussion (which I also wasn't aware of): The language fallback chains do not have to make up a tidy tree. It can (and does in places) have cycles and a language can have several fallback languages. For example avk falls back to fr, es, ru; mdf and myv fall back to one another (before both fall back to ru). Based on @Nikki's analysis it makes a lot of sense to us to only do mul for now and see how that goes. Then the remaining question is about the exact fallbacks we want. The options we see right now are: - the fallback to mul happens after the fallback to en at the very end of all fallback chains (example chain //de-at -> de -> en -> mul//) - the fallback to mul happens before the implicit fallback to en but after any explicit fallback (even explicit fallback to en from e.g en-gb) (example: //en-gb -> en -> mul// or //de-at -> de -> mul -> en//) The question boils down to if for non-English languages, a fallback to e.g. //Amphispiza bilineata// is preferable to “Black-throated Sparrow” or not. Do you have thoughts on these options? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285156 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Lydia_Pintscher Cc: Esc3300, Ash_Crow, Moebeus, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, So9q, Ainali, Epidosis, Shushugah, Manuel, Nikki, Mbch331, jhsoby, Amire80, Lydia_Pintscher, ChristianKl, Mahir256, Aklapper, Invadibot, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude
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