No need to do translations from scratch, since other people already maintain them:
http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/
Look at iso_639 and iso_639_3.
Regards, ~~helix84
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 16:45, Michael Dale mdale@wikimedia.org wrote:
Small thread on api list about localising languages lists.. I think it would be worth while. I don't think it would be too costly to the translate community, especially if we seeded it from some digital source.
Do people know of a good source for localised language lists? If nothing else the inter-wiki links on the wikipedia article for each language might be a good start.
--michael
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] is there a way to get the English name of a language? Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:41:51 -0600 From: Michael Dale mdale@wikimedia.org Reply-To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org To: mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org
On 01/17/2011 12:52 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
2011/1/17 Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com:
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?
--michael
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