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@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&f... [1] https://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&format... [2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&format... [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121936
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:21 AM, Markus Bärlocher < markus.baerlocher@lau-net.de> wrote:
Thanks Denny for this:
is this what you look for? 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 _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
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