Hi,
In Wikidata there was a proposal to add special fallback pseudo-languages to make it possible to have labels that work by writing system rather than by language: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/06#Multilan...
The proposal was to use language codes such as mul-latn, etc.
It kind of makes sense to me, but I'd like to ask the language code standards experts in the committee: is such usage standard?
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Hoi, I do not think so. Names are in the same script not commons.. Hungarian comes to mind. It will create a mess,. Thanks, GerardM
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 09:47, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
In Wikidata there was a proposal to add special fallback pseudo-languages to make it possible to have labels that work by writing system rather than by language:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/06#Multilan...
The proposal was to use language codes such as mul-latn, etc.
It kind of makes sense to me, but I'd like to ask the language code standards experts in the committee: is such usage standard?
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
I'm not sure I understand.
My question is not whether names are written the same way in the same alphabet. Of course sometimes they aren't.
My questions is also not whether the idea of fallback by script is good. It is to be discussed in Wikidata discussion pages.
My questions is whether a code like mul-latn is valid. Is it standard to use "mul", which is a somewhat special code with a script code? The codes sr-latn and sr-cyrl are clearly valid, but sr is a usual language code, whereas mul is a bit different. So can mul be used in such a context just like a code for an actual language? Does anyone know for certain?
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
בתאריך יום ג׳, 13 באוג׳ 2019 ב-15:55 מאת Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>:
Hoi, I do not think so. Names are in the same script not commons.. Hungarian comes to mind. It will create a mess,. Thanks, GerardM
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 09:47, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,
In Wikidata there was a proposal to add special fallback pseudo-languages to make it possible to have labels that work by writing system rather than by language:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/06#Multilan...
The proposal was to use language codes such as mul-latn, etc.
It kind of makes sense to me, but I'd like to ask the language code standards experts in the committee: is such usage standard?
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
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Hoi, The example used on the Wikidata website is for it to be used for names.. NOT a good idea. Thanks, GeraRDm
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 15:34, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I'm not sure I understand.
My question is not whether names are written the same way in the same alphabet. Of course sometimes they aren't.
My questions is also not whether the idea of fallback by script is good. It is to be discussed in Wikidata discussion pages.
My questions is whether a code like mul-latn is valid. Is it standard to use "mul", which is a somewhat special code with a script code? The codes sr-latn and sr-cyrl are clearly valid, but sr is a usual language code, whereas mul is a bit different. So can mul be used in such a context just like a code for an actual language? Does anyone know for certain?
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
בתאריך יום ג׳, 13 באוג׳ 2019 ב-15:55 מאת Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>:
Hoi, I do not think so. Names are in the same script not commons.. Hungarian comes to mind. It will create a mess,. Thanks, GerardM
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 09:47, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,
In Wikidata there was a proposal to add special fallback pseudo-languages to make it possible to have labels that work by writing system rather than by language:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/06#Multilan...
The proposal was to use language codes such as mul-latn, etc.
It kind of makes sense to me, but I'd like to ask the language code standards experts in the committee: is such usage standard?
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
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