Hi everyone,
When entering labels in WikiData, any world language should be allowed.
Technical language/script/variety marking for internet ressources is currently defined in
the IANA language subtag registry.
Thus the above suggestion boils down to mark language selections for labels by a valid
code as per the IANA language subtag registry, and allow each tag to be used (referred to)
by editors entering labels.
I created bug 71664 so as to overcome the current limitation.
Purodha
References:
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http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-re… - IANA
language subtag registry
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http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/ - Interactive query of the IANA language subtag
registry
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http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt - BCP 47 = Best Current Practice - Tags for
Identifying Language
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http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/ - Language tags in HTML and XML
(by the W3C)
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https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71664
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