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Small thread on api list about localising languages lists.. I think
it would be worth while. I don't think it would be too costly to the
translate community, especially if we seeded it from some digital
source. <br>
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Do people know of a good source for localised language lists? If
nothing else the inter-wiki links on the wikipedia article for each
language might be a good start.<br>
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--michael<br>
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<pre>On 01/17/2011 12:52 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> 2011/1/17 Bryan Tong Minh <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bryan.tongminh@gmail.com"><bryan.tongminh@gmail.com></a>:
>> I looked around, but as far as I can find MediaWiki only has the names
>> in their native language available.
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> That's right, the English names aren't stored by MediaWiki. I guess if
> we did that we'd have to have every language's name in every other
> language, which would be a huge amount of data (371 languages, so we'd
> need 371*371=137,641 translations).
Its not much different from adding an extension with 371 msg keys, we
have like ~3K msg keys just core no? You could look at as adding 10%
more messages.
I would support having localised listing of languages. it would make
language selection widgets a lot easier to follow. This list could be
seeded from a digital source relativity easily. What to translate wiki
folks think?
--michael
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