On 4 March 2013 07:44, Jiang BIAN bianjiang@google.com wrote:
There are some ids like "dewiki", "enwiki" etc, which I guess can be interpreted to corresponding languages "de", "en" respectively. But is there a reliable map from these *wiki to the language code? And some are even using 3-letter prefix, e.g. gotwiki, xmfwiki.
I can't answer on the APIs, but the three-letter prefixes are also languages - got is Gothic, xmf Mingrelian, etc.
XXwiki or XXXwiki will always refer to the XX or XXX language Wikipedia using standard ISO 639-1 or 639-2 codes; there are a couple of exceptions, such as simplewiki, but anything with two or three characters should be reliable.