Last modified: 2013-10-08 16:46:20 UTC
If you go to an item that does not have content in your language, it will look like it has *no* content. That's misleading and unhelpful. As an example, consider http://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q26&oldid=57 One thing that would help is implementing language fallback. http://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q26&oldid=57 has content for en-gb, we should see that also if our user language is en or en-ca. If there's nothing better, we should also see that if our language code is de or he. Compare bug 36430. Another thing we can do is (somewhere) show a list of the languages this item has content for. We could (ab)use the sidebar for this, simulating "language links" like on wikipedia. The user's preferred languages could/should be sorted to the top. Compare bug 40744. The general question behind this ticket is though: how do we make content in other languages discoverable?
Somewhat related, sometimes I'd like to be able to edit labels the same way I'm editing links. That would solve this problem too.
Marking as a dupe of language fallback as we really need to get down the number of bugs and this one isn't useful to keep around. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 36430 ***
