Hi Stephen,
in your CSV [1] I count:
312 WP-languages
so WP-languages is between 277, 294, 312 and 360 ;-)
Hi Denny,
use case is the 'Hydrographic Dictionary' (HD)
of the 'International Hydrographic Organization' (IHO).
80 nations as members of IHO.
Content of HD are nautical terms and a corresponding description/definition.
The idea is to free the HD, and to share it with WD/WP,
so crowdsourcing can help to improve and append it,
and to translate it to more languages :-)
We prepare an editing tool.
For to select a language, we will use a list.
This list should contain the WP-languages.
The IHO will decide, which of this languages should be prioritized.
My hope is to find a such list...
(yes, I knew: the WP-language-list is 'in process'
but I hope it is stable for some days/weeks
and I find a valid and complete list somewhere in the WM-space)
Best regards,
Markus
Am 30.09.2016 um 20:45 schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
Markus, it really depends on what you mean with
"a list of all Wikimedia
languages". That is why you get different numbers.
Usually, you will have a use case for this list, and depending on that
use case you should select the languages you really care about. Besides
looking good in some marketing terms, having a complete list from a
random collection is barely a real use case. Which languages do you want
to list, what is this list for, and what will happen if a specific
language is within that list or not?
Just my 2c
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:04 AM Stephen Niedzielski
<sniedzielski(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:sniedzielski@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
I apologize but I'm coming into this thread a little late. FWIW, I
wanted to mention that this is what we use to generate a list of
languages[0] for the Wikipedia Android app.
Less to your question but similar, we also generate localized main
page title and site name[1], and namespace titles[2]. There's also a
related thread in T121936[3] discussing the localized name of all
Wikimedia sites.
[0]
https://wikistats.wmflabs.org/api.php?action=dump&table=wikipedias&…
[1]
https://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&forma…
[2]
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&forma…
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121936
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:21 AM, Markus Bärlocher
<markus.baerlocher(a)lau-net.de <mailto:markus.baerlocher@lau-net.de>>
wrote:
Thanks Denny for this:
It's based on the query by Jérémie a few
mails back.
http://tinyurl.com/h2zky8p
Yes this helps very much :-)
But there are some inconsistencies:
360 WP-languages from your query
294 WP-languages in
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
277 WP-languages in
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sprachen
73 'localname' in the query are empty
9 'name' in the query are double
(ell, gsw, lzh, mrj, nan, ron, rup, sgs, vro)
There are some problems with characters/charset
when I copy&paste the query result to Excel:
Burmese, Gothic, Northern Thai, shows only squares as 'local
language'
But copying after the squares from Excel to Thunderbird works:
Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာစကား mya
Gothic language 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌳𐌰 got
Northern Thai ᨣᩴᩤᨾᩮᩥᩬᨦ nod
All the rest works fine :-)
It would be good to work out a valid and complete table
of the WP-languages...
Best regards,
Markus
> Until now I have a CSV with 294 languages in two columns:
> - name of language in English
> - name of language local in local writing system
>
> I look for:
> - ISO-639-3 short code (corresponding to the names)
>
> Best regards,
> Markus