Something very weird is going on with Serbian language on Wikidata, so I wanted
to draw more attention to it. As always, this is probably applicable to Chinese
etc. as well.
It used to be that, if someone visits Wikidata from Serbia, Serbian language
did
not appear in the list of languages for adding label and description. This is
described in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121747
However, as of right now, if someone visits Wikidata from Serbia, he will get
Serbian language twice: in Cyrillic (српски) and Latin (srpski) variant.
To my
knowledge, it has never been discussed to conclusion whether there should be
independent labels for the variants. Either way, one of the consequences of
this
is that all the Serbian labels that have been entered so far are invisible in
this list.
It gets even funnier if you go to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3711?uselang=sr-el since now you get Serbian
three times: as "srpski (latinica)", "Serbian (Cyrillic script)" and
"српски".
It appears that the first is sr-el, the second is sr-ec and the third is the
new
sr-cyrl.
I didn't want to play with editing, since this is a mess already. It appears
that this is caused by an attempt to fix T121747 while simultaneously changing
Serbian-language codes (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117845). Either way,
I believe it warrants more attention.