Change Details

Currently, the entity usage tracking service knows two cases for label usage: * the label in the wiki's content language (aspect "L") * a label in some other language (aspect "X", which covers all other aspects) On a multilingual site like Wikimedia Commons, pages often use labels in multiple languages. Any such languages would be tracked as using the "X" aspect of the item, triggering a purge whenever //any// part of the entity is edited. This is particularly bad for entities that are used on hundreds of thousands of pages, e.g. countries. Possible solutions: # Introduce an additional tracking aspect for labels in any language. Note that the database schema currently only supports a single character for the aspect. # Change the interpretation of L to mean "label in any language". This would mean more pointless purges on monolingual wikis, but it would address the issue of language fallback, which was ignored in the "single language" tracking scheme.

Currently, the entity usage tracking service knows two cases for label usage: * the label in the wiki's content language (aspect "L") * a label in some other language (aspect "X", which covers all other aspects) On a multilingual site like Wikimedia Commons, pages often use labels in multiple languages. Any such languages would be tracked as using the "X" aspect of the item, triggering a purge whenever //any// part of the entity is edited. This is particularly bad for entities that are used on hundreds of thousands of pages, e.g. countries. Solution, as per discussion T90563 (updated March 18): Use per-language aspects. Instead of the "L" aspect, use "L/en" for the label in English, "L/ru" for the label in Russian, etc.

Currently, the entity usage tracking service knows two cases for label usage: * the label in the wiki's content language (aspect "L") * a label in some other language (aspect "X", which covers all other aspects) On a multilingual site like Wikimedia Commons, pages often use labels in multiple languages. Any such languages would be tracked as using the "X" aspect of the item, triggering a purge whenever //any// part of the entity is edited. This is particularly bad for entities that are used on hundreds of thousands of pages, e.g. countries. Possible solutions: # Introduce an additional tracking aspect for labels in any language.Solution, Note that the database schema currently only supports a single character for the aspect. # Change the interpretation of L to mean "label in any language".as per discussion T90563 (updated March 18): Use per-language aspects. Instead of the "L" aspect, This would mean more pointless purges on monolingual wikisuse "L/en" for the label in English, but it would address"L/ru" for the issue of language fallbacklabel in Russian, which was ignored in the "single language" tracking schemeetc.