Help:Datatype "Monolingual text"

Monolingual text
Holds a text value that associates the annotation with a specific language code
Further information
Provided by:	Semantic MediaWiki
Since version:	2.4.0
Until version:	still in use
Datatype ID:	_mlt_rec
In this wiki:	Monolingual text
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The datatype Monolingual text1 associates a text value with a specific language code. The annotation form is expected as foo@en with the first element being an arbitrary text while the second element divided by @ to contain a valid language code.

Notes

• An annotation with [[Has monolingual text::some text@en]] is identical to [[Has monolingual text::some text@EN]] because language codes are transformed to a IETF language tag / BCP47 (by "Localizer::asBCP47FormattedLanguageCode").
• The Language code is internally managed by special property "Language code"Handles BCP47 conform language codes specifying the language of the annotated text
• Internally each value of this special property ("MonolingualTextValue") is stored as separate entity using as special construct ("ContainerSemanticData") allowing for foo@en to be different from foo@ja by its data structure (oppose to a string comparison which only would establish that two strings are different but without the semantic interpretation that for the cited example only the language code is different).

Examples

Display text in a defined language

Annotation

[[Has monolingual text::foo@ja]]

or

{{#subobject:
 |Has monolingual text=foo@en
}}

Query

{{#ask:
 [[Has monolingual text::?@ja]]
 |?Has monolingual text|+index=1
 |mainlabel=-
 |headers=hide
}}

See <sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org> for live examples.

Display text in context of the user language

Annotation

{{#subobject:
 |@category=Test one
 |Has monolingual text=123@en
}}{{#subobject:
 |@category=Test one
 |Has monolingual text=一二三@ja
}}

Query

{{#ask:
 [[Category:Test one]]
 [[Has monolingual text::?@{{USERLANGUAGECODE}}]]
 |?Has monolingual text|+index=1
 |mainlabel=-
 |headers=hide
}}

See <sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org> for live examples.

The {{USERLANGUAGECODE}} variable used in this example is provided by extension "MyVariables" (MediaWiki.org).

Further examples

API example

• API result "Monolingual text"

See also

• Info page on Multilingual Semantic MediaWiki
• Help page on localization and multilingual content
• Help page on content, page and user language
• Help page on special property "Has property description"Adds localizable context help to properties
• Help page on special property "Has preferred property label"Adds localizable labels to a property
• Help page on special property "Language code"Handles BCP47 conform language codes specifying the language of the annotated text