Hi Markus, Nemo and Wikidatans,
In a "[Wikidata] How many languages supports Wikibase/Wikidata?" thread beginning May 26, Jan Macura writes
Hi all,
looking into [1] I read that Wikidata supports 358 languages. Is it still true? For example, I tried to add label in language coded as "nan" (defined in ISO 639-3) and it worked. However it didn't worked for e.g. "arb", which is also part of the ISO 639-3 standard. So how many?
Thanks Jan
[1] VRANDEČIĆ, Denny, KRÖTZSCH, Markus. Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase. *Communications of the ACM*. 2014-10, Vol. 57 No. 10, 7885. DOI 10.1145/2629489. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/ fulltext
Thanks for helping to focus these unfolding Wikdaata language development questions, Markus.
Scott
On Sep 7, 2016 12:04 PM, "Markus Bärlocher" markus.baerlocher@lau-net.de wrote:
Hi Nemo,
I need the relation between ISO 639-3 and WP-shortcuts
I still have no idea what you mean by WP-shortcuts
I'm not a programmer nor a language specialist. Sorry for my Swiss school English...
I have found this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Liste_der_Wikimedia-Wikis?uselang=en Contains 400 languages - but WP says that WP has 293 languages, see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sprachen
From there from column "Language" I extracted two columns
- language name local in local writing system
- language name English :-)
In the first list there are eight columns with Wiki-language-abreviations (2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 characters). But ISO 639-3 should have exact 3 characters?
I don't have a full ISO 639-3 list, and I don't like to try a matching between a such list and the WP-language-abreviations by hand ;-)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_code has all the pointers you need and
Here I read that ISO 639-3 is required: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translatewiki.net_languages# Policy_on_enabling_translation_into_a_language but I can't find a such list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes has most of the equivalencies between ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-3.
Here I count 185 languages. And I have no idea how to merge this with the other tables with 293 or 400 languages...
I hope that there is somewhere in the Wikimedia-space a table of all used 293 WP-languages with:
- ISO 639-3
- language name local in local writing system
- language name English
I hope my needs are more clear now?
Bests, Markus
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