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[edit]Hello,
It's been a long time I was wondering et now I launch !
When we are not connected, it's in English and no possibility to change (why, it's not complicated to be more inclusive?).
And now, even when we are connected, the basic languages are the prefered (ok), but the 3 other are English (ok), German (why not because of the numerbered articles), an another English (why?).
I don't understand how it is possible to promote this English language at this point. Specially the second specific English that is for me totally useless, and takes place instead of Spanish, Chinese, or Portuguese for example.
Regards
Nezdek (talk) 07:34, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Nezdek, which exactly languages are you talking about? Where do you see them? Michgrig (talk) 13:05, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
- Now it is for my account : French > English > American English > Spanish. And when it's not logged : English > French (maybe with the IP adress ?). Nezdek (talk) 07:20, 13 April 2025 (UTC)
- As far as I am concerned, Wikidata makes use of mw:Universal Language Selector. It implements some heuristics that use information/preferences provided by the browser, including the country. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:48, 13 April 2025 (UTC)
- It's not good because my firefox is in French, not in English neither American English... You can just modify the first, not the others and obliged to be connected. Nezdek (talk) 12:51, 13 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Nezdek, if you want to change the languages in which you see labels of Wikidata items, you can use the "babel" template on your user page, for example,
{{#babel:ru|en-3|fr-1|de-0|it-0|es-0}}Michgrig (talk) 18:40, 13 April 2025 (UTC)- thank you so much for your help ! it's rather technical, why is it like this without this tip ? it should be international from scratch, no need to change by ourself ? Nezdek (talk) 19:18, 13 April 2025 (UTC)
- It is international, you can just fine-tune the automatic assumption. Michgrig (talk) 11:22, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
- thank you so much for your help ! it's rather technical, why is it like this without this tip ? it should be international from scratch, no need to change by ourself ? Nezdek (talk) 19:18, 13 April 2025 (UTC)
- I didn't say it will use only the language your browser is in. My browser is in Czech, yet it sends
Accept-Language: cs,sk;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3. This is set somewhere deeper. - Also, ULS maintains a large list of major languages spoken in every country. I guess that's why it shows Spanish for you.
- Wikimedia wikis are usually not configurable for anonymous users. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:28, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
- I hope it will change quickly because it's still french / english / US english / spanish for me if logged, and english / french without logged. Nezdek (talk) 20:01, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Nezdek, if you want to change the languages in which you see labels of Wikidata items, you can use the "babel" template on your user page, for example,
- It's not good because my firefox is in French, not in English neither American English... You can just modify the first, not the others and obliged to be connected. Nezdek (talk) 12:51, 13 April 2025 (UTC)
- As far as I am concerned, Wikidata makes use of mw:Universal Language Selector. It implements some heuristics that use information/preferences provided by the browser, including the country. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:48, 13 April 2025 (UTC)
- Now it is for my account : French > English > American English > Spanish. And when it's not logged : English > French (maybe with the IP adress ?). Nezdek (talk) 07:20, 13 April 2025 (UTC)
two items for "GHZ state", but one describes the "GHZ experiment" - how to change the name?
[edit]I just noticed that there are two items called "Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state":
But the second does not describe the quantum state but the associated physical experiment. I think its name should be changed to "Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger experiment". How can I change the name or request it to be changed? --Qcomp (talk) 21:17, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
- has been solved, I should just have changed the erroneous label. --Qcomp (talk) 14:38, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
Questions left unanswered, often getting archived before anyone replies
[edit]I frequently encounter the issue that no-one replies in days and weeks to questions I ask on Wikidata:Project chat and that (if I don’t reply to my own questions) they get archived way too early! (I think the archiving bot should stay away from discussions that don’t have any replies.)
For comparison, this is generally not an issue on the OpenStreetMap Community Forum, where you generally get replies to your questions in less than an hour! Is the Wikidata community that much smaller than the OSM community?
— keepright! ler (talk) 09:21, 5 September 2025 (UTC)
- Depends how you quantify the size of a community. For example, we now have over 24,000 people who were active on Wikidata in the last 30 days. Not everyone is willing to provide answers on the project chat (or even watching it), though. "Number of page watchers who visited in the last 30 days" (information available to administrators) is currently something between 100 and 200. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:37, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
- I think that this community communicates mainly by Telegram group. I almost never read this page and I suspect that applies for most editors. B25es (talk) 16:03, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
- What if I don’t want to use my private phone number with Telegram just for Wikidata? I prefer ways of communication that don’t need a cellular connection!
— keepright! ler (talk) 09:41, 10 September 2025 (UTC)
- What if I don’t want to use my private phone number with Telegram just for Wikidata? I prefer ways of communication that don’t need a cellular connection!
- I think that this community communicates mainly by Telegram group. I almost never read this page and I suspect that applies for most editors. B25es (talk) 16:03, 7 September 2025 (UTC)