No need to do translations from scratch, since
other people already
maintain them:
Look at iso_639 and iso_639_3.
Regards,
~~helix84
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 16:45, Michael Dale <mdale(a)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(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion
<mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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?
--michael
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