Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Multimedia and Commons/Make subcategory browsing multilingual using Wikidata

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Make subcategory browsing multilingual using Wikidata

Problem: Although Commons is a multilingual project, MediaWiki categories can only have a label in one language. Wikidata changes this: when a category is linked to Wikidata (which over 3 million of them now are), you can define labels for it on Wikidata in many languages. The Wikidata Infobox displays those multilingual labels within the category, so you can see the topic info in your language when you are within the category. However, subcategories only appear in the language they were created in (normally English), which can make it difficult for people that don't know that language to browse them.
Who would benefit: Commons editors and browsers who do not know English
Proposed solution: Use the Commons <-> Wikidata sitelinks to Wikidata to display a category label in the user's requested language. This would be best done within MediaWiki itself rather than having Javascript or similar trying to rewrite the labels after rendering.
More comments: A bonus would be if d:Property:P18 (image) could also be used to show subcategory thumbnails, and perhaps also use the descriptions on hover-over to add additional context.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Mike Peel (talk) 20:33, 20 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Discussion

Hi Mike Peel, trying to explain in English: is this wishful thinking or have I seen somewhere the goal is that infoboxes on the different Wikipedias should no longer be necessary? To give an example: a layout like Maia Sandu where a link to commons is integrated at the bottom of the infobox like here? Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 12:53, 21 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
- @Lotje: That's not related to this proposal, perhaps we could talk about it elsewhere. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:57, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  - @Mike Peel:, I'll just leave if for what it is. Not interested/motivated enough to search al all over the place to put a question forword to which I might never reeive a reply. Thank you for your time anyway and sorry having bothered you. Lotje (talk) 06:51, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    - I've followed up on your talk page. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Similar/identical proposal: Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Categories/Support multilingual category names czar 18:43, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
- @Czar: I replied there about the difference in scope, but they are highly complementary. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:57, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@4nn1l2, Till.niermann, Triplec85, NMaia, JAn Dudík, Iñaki LL, Pigsonthewing, DarwIn, Sadads, Christian Ferrer, Libcub, NaBUru38, Higa4, Dhx1, BoldLuis, Crazy1880, Strainu, Jmmuguerza, The Blinder Grunt, Dinock90, Bilorv, Podzemnik, Beta16, Luan, GiFontenelle, Jklamo, Uanfala, and DALIBRI: If you're still interested in this issue, please see Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Multimedia and Commons/Make category browsing multilingual using Wikidata. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:43, 28 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Voting

Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 18:13, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support --Till.niermann (talk) 06:57, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support -- Triple C 85 ^|talk| 10:48, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support NMaia (talk) 12:35, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 20:07, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Iñaki LL (talk) 20:20, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:58, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 01:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Sadads (talk) 16:38, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Christian Ferrer (talk) 17:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 20:13, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support NaBUru38 (talk) 20:55, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Higa4 (talk) 04:48, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Dhx1 (talk) 13:10, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support BoldLuis (talk) 17:49, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Crazy1880 (talk) 19:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support As a needed complement to Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Categories/Support multilingual category names Strainu (talk) 09:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Jmmuguerza (talk) 14:16, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support The Blinder Grunt (talk) 07:57, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Dinock90 (talk) 09:32, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 17:32, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Podzemnik (talk) 21:10, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support β₁₆ - (talk) 09:23, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support --Luan (discussão) 19:39, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support GiFontenelle (talk) 05:20, 18 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Jklamo (talk) 15:41, 19 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Uanfala (talk) 22:38, 19 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support DALIBRI (talk) 13:49, 21 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]