Daniel, I agree, but isn't that what Multilingual Text requires? A language code?

I.e. how does the current model plan to solve that?

I assume most of it is hidden behind mini-wizards like "Create a new lexeme", which actually make sure the multitext language and the language property are consistently set. In that case I can see this work.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:11 AM Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Am 10.04.2017 um 18:56 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
> Hoi,
> The standard for the identification of a language should suffice.

I know no standard that would be sufficient for our use case.

For instance, we not only need identifiers for German, Swiss and Austrian
German. We also need identifiers for German German before and after the spelling
reform of 1901, and before and ofter the spelling reform of 1996. We will also
need identifiers for the "language" of mathematical notation. And for various
variants of ancient languages: not just Sumerian, but Sumerian from different
regions and periods.

The only system I know that gives us that flexibility is Wikidata. For
interoperability, we should provide a standard language code (aka subtag). But a
language code alone is not going to be sufficient to distinguish the different
variants we will need.

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Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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