Hi,
For Wikimedia Incubator, a list of ISO 639-1/3 language codes would be
useful. I generated a PHP array based on
<http://sil.org/iso639-3/iso-639-3_20110525.tab>, and I wanted to make
an extension of that (which would be enabled on Incubator). FYI: the
array contains 7706 ISO 639-3 codes, besides the ISO 639-1 codes.
Now, such a list already ships with the Babel extension, and I don't
like duplication so I was thinking, maybe it could be added to core?
Besides these two extensions, it could provide language names for
{{#language}} which only works for languages known in MediaWiki's
Names.php (unless CLDR extension is enabled and the second parameter
is used).
Actually CLDR is incomplete itself and our CLDR extension has extra
languages names that we added to the extension (which makes a third
extension that could benefit of this).
And maybe there are more use cases...
What do you think?
Regards,
SPQRobin