On 01/17/2011 12:52 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
2011/1/17 Bryan Tong Minh
<bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com>om>:
I looked around, but as far as I can find
MediaWiki only has the names
in their native language available.
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?
folks think they love the Unicode CLDR
project[1]
and fully support further use of the CLDR extension. Also see bug 16699[2]
which was created over two years ago.
We would love to be a front for the CLDR project, but we've never had the
right contacts and time to enter a dialog with them[3]. We are against
creating and supporting an extension that would duplicate the CLDR efforts.
Cheers!
Siebrand
[1]