Epidosis added a comment.
In a case like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191118, I tend to think a general label is not applicable (each language has its name for "tonne"); having "mul-lat" and "mul-cyr", I would set "t" as "mul-lat" alias and "т" as "mul-cyr" alias; having only "mul", I would set both "t" and "т" as "mul" aliases. Anyway, it is reasonable to start applying "mul" (or similar) with specific types of items (I tried to list them above; starting with some of them, as disambiguations, could work well). The idea of an apposite code for Latin name of taxa seems very interesting to me. In T285156#7322423 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285156#7322423>, @Epidosis wrote: > There are at least 3 categories of items which strongly need this: > > 1. `persons` (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search/haswbstatement:P31=Q5, as of now 9.2M): in most cases the same label and the same aliases are repeated in different languages (e.g. in wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q19667413&action=history I can count 6 same-label additions: fr, nl, sl, ca, ast, sq; many other items are similar) > - in the case of people, "mul-<script>" is required: names are the same only considering languages with the same alphabet, I'm mostly thinking about Latin alphabet > - in some cases there could be the following problem: one Latin-script language may prefer a form (e.g. "Philip L. Brown"), another Latin-language script another form (e.g. "Philip Larry Brown" or "Philip Brown"); while the group of labels and aliases is the same for all same-script languages, which is the label and which is the alias may vary from language to language; of course, this problem occurs only when there is more than one form of the name, but in many cases this doesn't happen > 2. `given names` and `family names` (https://w.wiki/3zWT, which counts Q202444 and Q101352 including subclasses, as of now 590k): in all cases the same label are repeated in different same-script languages (e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21448867) > 3. `scientific articles` (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search/haswbstatement:P31=Q13442814, as of now 37.3M): in most cases the same label is repeated in different languages (e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27860672) > - in some cases there could be articles with parallel titles in different languages (e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59238742) > > Considering also > > 4. `asteroids` (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search/haswbstatement:P31=Q3863, as of now 247k) > 5. `galaxies` (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search/haswbstatement:P31=Q318, as of now 2.1M) > 6. `taxa` (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search/haswbstatement:P31=Q16521, as of now 3.1M) > > and still leaving out disambiguation pages (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search/haswbstatement:P31=Q4167410, as of now 1.3M), we obtain **52.6M** items, out of 94.9M items, and probably the count could be further increased. > > Ideally, as I noted, "mul" and "mul-<script>" should allow exceptions in some way, but their necessity is very clear. I would suggest at least medium priority. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285156 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Epidosis 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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