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?

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@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@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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