I don't think it's true at the moment, but
imagine the next integration:
* A person is born on year/January/date. That's the data Wikipedia
should take from Wikidata.
* A user says "I am a German from Germany" and has that as
localization, instead of default Austrian version.
* What's the method of telling Wikidata to give German German January
instead of Austrian German January inside of the infobox?
Well, as dates in Wikidata are not stored as "5. Jänner 1980" in the first
place, that seems no problem. The infobox' code will simply translate
1980-01-05 differently, depending on the users' language settings. Or am I
mistaken?
I am sure there are similar peculiarities between
fr_FR and fr_CA.
If it's been solved in other ways, it's OK not to have fr_CA. If not,
it's reasonable to expect that Wikidata should cover such things and
add fr_CA as a Wikidata-only language.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
We do have different forms of English but they do include a requirement
for
localisation. With ISO-639-3 languages we truly
have different languages
with dialects we do not have the same rationale why having Wikidata
support
is a necessity.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 21 November 2016 at 13:54, Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen(a)sil.org>
wrote:
>
> Thanks, Gerard, for bringing this issue to our attention.
>
> As far as I can see, different Frenches are comparable to different
> Englishes. I understand that we allow a difefrence between American and
> British English. Do we also have separate support for Australian
English,
> Indian English, South African English etc?
>
> If we are to differentiate between French French and Canadian French,
what
> about Swiss French, West African French etc?
>
> In any case, I agree that such distinctions should be Wikidata only.
>
> Looking forward to hearing your (pl.!) opinion(s) on this, and with best
> wishes,
> Oliver
>
>
> On 21-Nov-16 12:48, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
> Hoi,
> For languages with an ISO-639-3 code it is OK to have Wikidata support
> them. For French and in particular Canadian French the same rationale
does
> not exist.
>
> What is our opinion about including Canadian French as a Wikidata only
> language? In my opinion it is only through the same way as it is done
for
British
English that this is fine.
Thanks,
GerardM
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151186
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