Show label even if it is not English

[Nicolas Raoul]

Most articles in Japan have only a Japanese label in Wikidata. Fortunately, most wikishootme in Japan happen to understand at least a bit of Japanese.

PROBLEM: wikishootme does not show the Japanese label

SOLUTION: If there is no English label, or no label in the visitor's language, just show a label in another language, in any case it is much more user-friendly than a Q code.

Example: https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q11547673

[Sjoerd de Bruin]

Language fallback would be great, also with the current language as main language.

[Nicolas Raoul]

Thanks for V3, it is wonderful, like a dream come true!

In your blog you mentioned that the label service is too slow. Here is a query example that shows a label in English OR in another language if no English is available, WITHOUT using the label service:

https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%0A%20%20%3Fitem%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28COALESCE%28%3Fen_label%2C%20%3Fitem_label%29%29%20as%20%3Flabel%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Flocation%29%20as%20%3Flocation%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ811979%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation%20.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fen_label%20.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Fen_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fitem_label%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem

SELECT
  ?item
  (SAMPLE(COALESCE(?en_label, ?item_label)) as ?label)
  (SAMPLE(?location) as ?location)
WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q811979 .
  ?item wdt:P625 ?location .
  MINUS {?item wdt:P18 ?image}
  OPTIONAL {?item rdfs:label ?en_label . FILTER(LANG(?en_label) = "en")}
  OPTIONAL {?item rdfs:label ?item_label}
}
GROUP BY ?item

I hope you can use the same trick for WSM.

[Nicolas Raoul]

If the label service is too slow, how about having the popup first display what it has, then dynamically load non-QID label when the need arises?

Self-memo:

• Popup is created at https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikishootme/src/757d905aca6ae3ee3b043c33476858b0ecd2c0e0/public_html/index.html?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default#index.html-311
• Current implementation of label loading using only the user's language: https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikishootme/src/757d905aca6ae3ee3b043c33476858b0ecd2c0e0/public_html/index.html?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default#index.html-872