Kven is derived from Finnish, and Finish act as a macro language.
Where is the procedure documented?
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
There is a procedure for new languages in the Wikimedia Foundation. In
principle languages like Kven that are recognised by the ISO-639-3 are
valid for inclusion in Wikidata. The procedure is that the language
committee is informed and has the ability to prevent it to happen when need
be.
One of the things that are essential is the autonym for the language.
When Kven is added as Finnish, it is 100% incorrect.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 December 2015 at 19:43, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just checked, and Kven [2] (fkv), Romanes (rom)
[3] and Romani [4]
(rotipa, romani rakripa, scandoromani, rmu) is still not valid languages in
the monolingual text data type. Those are listed as endangered languages
where Norway has a special responsibility. That is "de nasjonale
minoritetsspråkene kvensk, romanes og romani"[1]
The Kven language is official language in Porsanger municipality in
Norway,[5] but we can't add it properly in the item. It is now added as
"Finnish" (Finnic language), but this is not correct. The Kven language is
a Finnic language, but it is not the same.
It is sort of embarrassing to explain time and again that we don't
support these languages. I have reported this bug before.[7] Protection of
minority languages is a human rights obligation, but we simply dismiss
that. I think we should take this serious and fix this now.
[1]
http://www.sprakradet.no/Spraka-vare/Minoritetssprak/
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kven_language
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_language
[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandoromani_language
[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsanger
[6]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483885#P1448
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74590
[
8]http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44352
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