Hoi,
There are standards that define British English et al. It makes part of the
ISO codes. We do not have to invent something like "ISO 639-3eng".
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 May 2014 20:39, Scott MacLeod <worlduniversityandschool(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi Joe, Magnus, Andrew, GerardM, Jane, Daniel and
Wikidatans,
Since "Language fallback is not a luxury like it is for British English,
it is essential for all the smaller languages. It is what prevents it from
being editable / usable" (per GerardM), and in terms of Reasonator,
statements, and careful design (DanielK), what are current Wikidata
processes to plan eventually for all 7,106 living languages (plus even dead
and invented languages) in the world per "Ethnologue: Languages of the
World, Seventeenth edition" (
http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size),
as people add them, and use, for example, the ISO coding system (or
similar) for this, to anticipate not yet added languages, and especially
for 'smaller' languages that GerardM mentions?
In terms of British English (en-gb) and English (en) distinction, why not
just code English in Wikidata as "ISO 639-3eng" per
http://www.ethnologue.com/language/eng as part of a careful design for
all languages, and then build out for smaller languages? (CC wiki WUaS is
planning wiki schools in all 7,106 languages, plus dead and invented
languages).
It seems that using or keying in on the ISO system, or a similar one,
would allow for remarkable extensibility and careful design of Wikidata, as
well as fallback for other languages such as Hindi, Odia or Malayalam.
Cheers,
Scott
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi,
I am talking about statements.. I am not asking for selecting items that
have no label in a language.. This would only work if auto descriptions are
in use.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 May 2014 12:52, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Am 05.05.2014 10:57, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
When the "other languages" box needs to become more flexible, it is a
different
problem that has nothing to do with the ability
to understand what
statements
are made. At this time it is an absolute
inability when there is no
label in
*YOUR* language.
You are talking about picking an item as a link target when creating a
statement
when tehre is no label for the target item in your exact variant?
Yes, we can and should implement fallback for that more swiftly. In
fact, I was
under the impression this was already in place... Lydia, do we have
ticket for that?
-- daniel
PS: it's not an *absolute* inability: you can enter the ID directly. But
that's
not very nice, I know.
--
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Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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