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
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