User:Liangent/proposal-info

== About me ==

Liangent (talk | global | mail | irc | gerrit | gerrit-review).

Preference
I'm submitting two proposals: one for the category redirects idea, and another for the wiki(base|data) language fallback & conversion idea. Actually I like to do either, and hope that another one can be done by someone else, because both of them resolve problems for our (zhwp) community. Since the first one has been listed on our idea list page, it's more likely that some other student wants to choose it too, and in this case I can do the fallback one.

From talk with my possible mentors, I learnt that Bawolff wants to implement category redirects themself if there's no student, and in Denny's plan language fallback is not something scheduled for short-term development. So if both projects give me a chance I'd like to do the Wikibase one. Besides the availablity of mentors, another reason is that new data are added to Wikidata rapidly these days. If language fallback is not handled properly, we may need more cleanup work to do in the future after people put duplicated data into multiple languages and / or variants, creating the same scenario as the one when LanguageConverter was initially created on zhwiki.

For above reasons, the main proposal is wikibase language work, and category redirects one is kept as a backup.