Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata/More languages for editing label

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More languages for editing label

Problem: When editing a label, only a few preselected languages appear. Finding how to choose these available languages in a pain (I found it once somewhere in the options, but I could not find it anymore).
Proposed solution: When editing the label, add a button "Add more languages" or "Edit languages" under the few preselected languages.
Who would benefit: People who edit in several languages.
More comments:
Phabricator tickets: phab:T126510
Proposer: Sovxx (talk) 13:13, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

It could be done through d:Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases and, more comfortably, labelLister in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets; probably we could just enable labelLister by default. --Epìdosis 14:59, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- And link under box about all entered languages. --Wargo (talk) 21:25, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Currently, the babel box is the place where the language list is set. It's not easy to discover but it's an existing feature. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 16:01, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, but it was a very strange discovery for me: I wouldn't expect that list of languages I know = list of languages I would like to edit. — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 20:25, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I recently made a script to make it easier to add more languages: d:User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js. We really shouldn't need gadgets and scripts to be able to do it though. - Nikki (talk) 00:27, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Does this expand to include scripts? And the type of transliteration rules? In the case of Chinese language, the PINYIN transliteration could only apply to the modern texts (ie after 1950s). Older texts were either Wade-Giles or some others. Currently, there is none to specify in Wikidata . When simply applying "zh" code will show a display "中文" (zhōngwén), the scripts for Chinese characters. Thank you. ShiehJ (talk) 19:24, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Ja, detta tycker jag vore en klar förbättring av Wikidatas användarvänlighet Sabelöga (talk) 23:43, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support It would be good having the ability to choose what languages to show by default. --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 23:49, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support NMaia (talk) 23:59, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 00:12, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gohan 07:08, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Martin-78 ^{(discutailler)} 08:34, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Muted Red Tulip (talk) 09:14, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oltrepier (talk) 10:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support And I agree with Tinker Bell. CaféBuzz (talk) 10:57, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ecritures (talk) 11:10, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Having the list match the babe boxes is clever, but it would be nice to have a way to explicitly define these via the preferences (which would be more discoverable and intuitive). Waldyrious (talk) 11:32, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Der Fussi 12:26, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nw520 (talk) 12:32, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Malvoört (talk) 13:41, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Кирилл С1 (talk) 14:36, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Perhaps a solution to this could be to make it easier to edit one's Babel box from a UI element available from every page? OwenBlacker (Talk) 15:17, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support I agree with User:Waldyrious. Mbkv717 (talk) 17:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Betseg (talk) 03:43, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:09, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ameisenigel (talk) 09:15, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mehman 09:41, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support self supporting :) Sovxx (talk) 12:33, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sun8908 (talk) 18:07, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nikki (talk) 00:30, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 01:03, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 08:10, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wargo (talk) 21:21, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support I thought this was a good idea in 2016 when I commented on the ticket and I still think it's a good idea 7 years (!) later. Tfmorris1 (talk) 23:34, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 02:39, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 17:38, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support DoublePendulumAttractor (talk) 05:58, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Yining Chen (Talk) 10:06, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support We should add more languages for the label. Thingofme (talk) 16:12, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Zache (talk) 05:00, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jklamo (talk) 12:14, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Czupirek (talk) 21:36, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mbrickn (talk) 03:14, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 12:46, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 18:43, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tris T7 (talk) 19:36, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]